View of part of West front. Digital image of WL 299.

Description View of part of West front. Digital image of WL 299.

Date 3/1962

Catalogue Number SC 766879

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of WL 299

Scope and Content South wing from west, Hopetoun House, West Lothian This shows part of the south wing. On the far left can be seen the curving colonnade wall surmounted by urns, which forms part of the east façade. The tower in the centre features a cupola and weathervane, and matches one on the other side of the building above the stables. The two-storeyed block with the curved gable at the wall-head was originally the laundry, with maid servants' rooms behind the long wall with the clipped yew hedge (centre). This part of the house also contained a swimming bath and Turkish steam bath, (which would only be used by the family), a boiler room, storage space for coal, and a separate octagonal dairy. The colonnade on the east side, and the arched wall with its yew trees on the west form an effective screen, which mask the service buildings from view. 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 (left) and a ballroom (right). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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