Architecture Notes

Event ID 844340

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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OWNER: Earl of Linlithgow

ARCHITECT: Sir W. Bruce Centre portion 1696

William Adam Wings

Sir Robert Rowand Anderson Entrance gates and lodges

William McLaren 14 panels for insertion in

central staircase 1967

NMRS REFERENCE:

Schomberg Scott Plans

Alterations to form new private Dining Room in the basement of the South Wing.

W Schomberg Scott Photograph Collection, Acc No 1997/39

The garden front - 2 prints

HOPETOUN DRAWINGS

NMRS Photographic Survey of a collection of drawings found in the laundry at Hopetoun House in the 1960's including: designs for alterations, new safe etc by Rowand Anderson and Paul 1904; Engineers' drawings by Glyde, Chaffey and Co 1910 and many designs for estate buildings 1877-1904.

Copied 1985 Inventory 146

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

National Archives of Scotland

William Adam, architect, in a letter to Sir John Clerk mentions that 'My Lord Hopetoun is pressing so much'. Lord Hopetoun cannot begin his quarry until Adam is there.

1726 GD 18/4729/1

Robert Adam writes that Lord Hopetoun is afraid that Adam will find fault with everything at Hopetoun House. He mentions that he has already thought of a scheme for the library which would make it one of the finest in the world.

1755 GD 18/4783

Robert Adam writes that Lord Hopetoun is pleased with the chimney piece sketches he has sent.

1755 GD 18/4783

Description of a visit.

1778 GD 126/Box 30

Hopetoun. New Hothouses.

1841 NRA(S)888/Box 8/13

Hopetoun House Garden

Vouchers of accounts

1876 NRA(S)888/3156

Hopetoun. Directions to James Jamieson for finishing and colouring the plan of Hopetoun Gardens.

1754 NRA(S)888/1509

Poem by Susan Clerk about a party at Sunnyside has in its introduction a few lines about a glittering reception at Hopetoun by way of contrasting with simplicity of Sunnyside. Tenducci (?) Italian singer performed, laurel wreaths, fireworks etc.

GD/18/4477

Proposed plans for Hopetoun House.

Letter from the 1st Earl of Hopetoun to James Duke of Montrose. He has got the drafts of his house from Lord Hyndford 'but the trouble this country is in has put everything of that kind out of our mind.'

1716 GD 220/5/617

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND:

Vitruvius Britannicus, Volume 2, page 75-77.

Country Life, August 22nd 1947.

SMT Magazine, July 1951.