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Hopetoun House, interior. View of hay loft in stables. Digital image of C 64180.
SC 767049
Description Hopetoun House, interior. View of hay loft in stables. Digital image of C 64180.
Date 23/11/1995
Catalogue Number SC 767049
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 64180
Scope and Content Hay-loft, Stables, Hopetoun House, West Lothian This shows the hay-loft above the stables. It would be used to store hay to feed the horses, whilst keeping it dry and away from vermin. This long room has stone walls, timber floorboards and exposed roof beams. The coal range (right) with its two ovens and hotplates shows that this was also a residential area, where stableboys and grooms would have slept in simple accommodation. The stables housed the horses of family and guests, and also provided space for grooming horses, shoeing horses (Hopetoun had its own blacksmith's shop or 'smithy') and storing harnesses and carriages. 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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