View showing farmhouse chimney Digital image of B/45413
SC 747427
Description View showing farmhouse chimney Digital image of B/45413
Date 1/8/1990
Catalogue Number SC 747427
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 45413
Scope and Content Farmhouse chimney, Gowanbank Farm, West Lothian Gowanbank, near Linlithgow, was the country home of Sir James Gowans (1821-90), a talented and energetic Victorian. Gowans is best known as an architect who pioneered a new, highly individual, Gothic-inspired architectural style. He was also a prominent railway engineer, quarry master and politician. This shows a chimney-stack on Gowans' mid-19th-century additions to the house. The tooth-like decorative masonry work on top is characteristic of his style although the stack is plainer than those built on the steading in order to blend in with the original chimneys on the house. Like his father, Walter, Gowans was also a master mason and in 1850 took over his father's lease of Redhall Quarry, near Edinburgh. Expanding this side of his business, Gowans went on to lease many quarries in Scotland, thereby adding to his wealth of knowledge about stone and its uses in construction. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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