Hopetoun House. View of part of stable block, courtyard. Digital image of WL 302.
SC 766910
Description Hopetoun House. View of part of stable block, courtyard. Digital image of WL 302.
Date 3/1962
Catalogue Number SC 766910
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of WL 302
Scope and Content Clock-tower, Stables, Hopetoun House, West Lothian This shows the stone-built clock-tower at the centre of the stables. The tower is supported by an arched base storey with giant scrolled consoles. An arched window with a Gibbs surround (alternate stones are raised around the margin of the window) is fitted at first floor level, and the tower is surmounted by a cupola, urns and dome with weathervane finial. Within the arch below this structure is a hay drop, which allows horse feed to be moved from the loft to the stables. A plan of 1910 shows stalls in Hopetoun's stables for about 20 horses. These would include some belonging to guests, some for pulling carriages, and others for riding and hunting. Keeping horses was expensive, so fine stables like these would be a powerful status symbol. 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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