General view. Digital image of WL 550.

Description General view. Digital image of WL 550.

Date 9/1964

Collection Scottish Development Department

Catalogue Number SC 766909

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of WL 550

Scope and Content Obelisk Cottage, Hopetoun House, West Lothian This mid-18th-century lodge stands next to one of the entrances to the estate. It is built of rubble and has a thatched roof and round-headed windows. This picturesque lodge is named after the nearby Obelisk Gate, which features a row of obelisks with ball finials on rusticated piers. Gate lodges are the first part of the estate seen by a visitor, so were often used to suggest the wealth and taste of the landowner, and to reflect the style of the main house. They housed the gatekeeper and his family, whose job was to monitor who was arriving or leaving the estate. Some large estates might have several lodges at their many entrances. 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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