DiCamillo Companion
Scotland

Whitehill House

  • Earlier Houses: There was least one earlier house on, or near, the site of the current house.

    Built / Designed For: Major R.G. Wardlaw-Ramsay

    House & Family History: Whitehill is a large two-story Tudor-Jacobean Revival style house with a fine Renaissance style porte-cochere. The white stone (now a pale gray) of which the house is built was mined on the estate. Whitehill was used as a Red Cross hospital during World War I; in 1924 the house became a hospital run by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, a purpose it served until 1998 (Pope John Paul II visited Whitehill House in 1982).

  • Garden & Outbuildings: The stableblock has been converted into eight condo-owned residences.

  • Architect: Alexander Roos

    Date: Circa 1845
    Designed: Gardens

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    Architect: William Burn

    Date: 1839-44
    Designed: House, together with David Bryce, for R.G. Wardlaw-Ramsay.

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    Architect: David Bryce

    Date: 1839-44
    Designed: House, together with William Burn, for R.G. Wardlaw-Ramsay.

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  • John Bernard (J.B.) Burke, published under the title of A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, among other titles: 2.S. Vol. I, p. 174, 1854.

  • Title: Buildings of Scotland: Lothian Except Edinburgh, The
    Author: McWilliam, Colin
    Year Published: 1980
    Reference: pg. 421
    Publisher: London: Penguin Books
    ISBN: 0140710663
    Book Type: Hardback

  • House Listed: Category A

    Park Listed: Not Listed

  • Past Seat / Home of: SEATED AT EARLIER HOUSE: Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie, 16th century. SEATED AT CURRENT HOUSE: Major R.G. Wardlaw-Ramsay, 19th century. Archibald Hood.

    Current Ownership Type: Corporation

    Primary Current Ownership Use: Country Club / Golf Club

    Ownership Details: Today Whitehill House Golf Course

  • House Open to Public: By Appointment

    Phone: 01314-400-594

    Email: [email protected]

    Website: https://www.whitehillhousegolf.co.uk/

    Historic Houses Member: No

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