Woodhouselee

Category

Library Item

Item no

12964

Title

Woodhouselee

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1880

Size

13.9 x 19 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The accompanying descriptive text in the volume begins as follows:
'This mansion, the residence of James Stuart Fraser Tytler, Esq., is situated in the parish of Glencorse, about six miles south of Edinburgh. It occupies a romantic site on the eastern slope of the Pentland hills, and from its elevated position it commands beautiful views over an extensive and highly cultivated district.
The house is a somewhat irregular pile of a building, erected at various dates, having a square tower at one corner, which was originally the old fortalice of Fulford, or Foulforde, an edifice dating from the fourteenth century. In 1755 Mr Wm. Tyler pulled down this old tower which was fast falling into ruins, and the present tower was built on its site by his son, Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, in 1796. An old vaulted apartment, part of the base of the old tower, still remains, while the library is part of an addition built from the stones of the old castle. The rest of the house is comparatively modern. The south wing, which occupies the site of one pulled down in 1843, was designed by, and built under the superintendence of Mr Kemp, the architect of Sir Walter Scott's monument.'

The full text may be viewed from the volume which is held at the Edinburgh and Scottish Collection in Edinburgh Central Library.

All that remains of Woodhouselee are the large underground vaults.

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