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Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 562702
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/562702
The name 'Ladykirk House' is today given to a twentieth-century house which lies in an area once occupied by the formal gardens associated with an earlier house of the same name. The original Ladykirk House was an eighteenth-century mansion, which was demolished in the 1960s.
The original Ladykirk House was built in 1797, to a design by the architect William Elliot, and it resembled Dundas House, which still stands in St Andrews Square, Edinburgh. It consisted of a central main block with adjoining symmetrical wings, and was built in the Classical style, with a central pediment and a parapet balustrade. Additions and alterations were undertaken in 1845 by William Burn.
Ladykirk estate was owned by the Robertson family in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The initials of one of the Robertsons, 'W R', were carved into the datestone that was once incorporated into the fabric of Ladykirk House.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
