View from NW Digital image of B/45401
SC 747412
Description View from NW Digital image of B/45401
Date 1/8/1990
Catalogue Number SC 747412
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 45401
Scope and Content Farmhouse, Gowanbank Farm, West Lothian, from north-west Gowanbank, near Linlithgow, was the country home of Sir James Gowans (1821-90). An energetic man of many talents, Gowans was an architect, railway engineer, quarry master and politician. His architecture, though influential, was highly ornate and has not always enjoyed popular appeal. This shows the front of the house with Gowans' mid-19th-century addition in the foreground and the plain, 1820s façade almost hidden behind. Gowans' Gothic-style addition, with its hooded dormer windows and elaborately decorated chimney-stacks included two wings at the back to form a U-shaped plan. Gowans was Chairman of the 1886 International Exhibition held on The Meadows in Edinburgh. Included was a model home for a working class family, designed by Gowans, who longed to raise the standard of such housing. Gowans was knighted by Queen Victoria when she visited the Exhibition in August 1886. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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