View from SE Digital image of B/45402
SC 747415
Description View from SE Digital image of B/45402
Date 1/8/1990
Catalogue Number SC 747415
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 45402
Scope and Content Farmhouse, Gowanbank Farm, West Lothian, from the south-east Gowanbank, some 9.6km south-west of Linlithgow, was the country home of Sir James Gowans (1821-90), an eminent Victorian architect, railway engineer, quarry manager and politician. Gowans was noted for the unusually elaborate, highly individual, Gothic-style buildings he designed. This shows the original 1820s part of the farmhouse in the foreground with part of Gowans' mid-19th-century additions beyond. The design of the original house was very plain but the additions were highly ornate as the decorative masonry work on the chimney-stack and hooded dormer windows demonstrate. In 1885, Gowans was made Lord Dean of Guild for Edinburgh Corporation. This enabled him to promote the continued high quality of the city's construction work and also to improve the low standard of working class housing which was overcrowded, and lacked sanitation and ventilation. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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