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 of Birth: Circa 1810
Date of Death: Jun 30, 1881
Nationality: Italian
Notes: Alexander Roos was born in Rome in about 1810, apparently the son of Karl Roos (1776–1836), a German cabinet maker based in Rome. Alexander studied architecture with Karl Friedrich Schinkel in Berlin and moved to England, where he became an architect and urban planner. Roos was the architect to the Bute Estates in South Wales, for which he designed many buildings and laid out several areas of Cardiff. He is buried at St. Pancras and Islington Cemetery.

Date: Circa 1845
Designed: Gardens

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Architect: William Burn

Date of Birth: 1789
Date of Death: 1870
Nationality: British
Notes: Son of Robert Burn. William Burn's nephew, John McVicar Anderson, was the successor of his architecture practice.

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

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Architect: David Bryce

Date of Birth: 1803
Date of Death: 1876
Nationality: British

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/

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