Hopetoun House, interior. View of chimney piece in dining room on principal floor. Digital image of WL 1646.

Description Hopetoun House, interior. View of chimney piece in dining room on principal floor. Digital image of WL 1646.

Date 1975

Catalogue Number SC 766952

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of WL 1646

Scope and Content Chimneypiece in Garden Room, Hopetoun House, West Lothian Formerly known as the Entrance Hall and the Dining Room This shows the chimneypiece in the entrance hall of the original Bruce house. This room was later used as a dining room, and is now known as the 'Garden Room', as doors open from it into the gardens. The walls are covered in oak panelling and gilded Ionic pilasters frame the marble fireplace. The painting represents the 4th Earl of Hopetoun in the uniform of the Royal Company of Archers, and is by Sir Watson Gordon. Bells at each side of the fireplace would be used to summon servants whilst sitting by the fire. A system of wires running through the walls connect with a row of labelled bells in the servants' corridor which swung on springs to indicate which room was calling for attention. Later, electric systems used swinging 'flags' behind labelled glass windows as 'indicator boards'. 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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