Interior. View of front hall. Digital image of WL 346.

Description Interior. View of front hall. Digital image of WL 346.

Date 3/1962

Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 766873

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of WL 346

Scope and Content Front hall, Hopetoun House, West Lothian This shows the front entrance hall, designed by the Adam brothers after 1752. The walls are divided by a cornice with deep coving above, and further decoration is applied to the doorcases, one of which features a broken pediment. The white marble fireplace is carved with a head of the sun god Apollo, and is flanked by busts of the Duke of York and the Duke of Wellington. The marble plaques and the bust above the door were bought in Italy in 1820 by the Marquess of Annandale whilst on the Grand Tour. Visitors would be led into the entrance hall by the butler, and would pause here to take off their travelling cloaks and coats before being led into the drawing room to meet their host. The entrance hall's rich furnishings are designed to reflect the wealth and taste of the owner of the house. Hopetoun House, the seat of the Marquis of Linlithgow, was built 1699-1704 to designs by architect Sir William Bruce (c.1630-1710). Between 1721 and 1748 architect William Adam (1689-1748), and his sons Robert (1728-92) and John (1721-92) designed extensions to the central block, flanked by curving colonnades leading to advanced pavilions containing stables (north) and a ballroom (south). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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