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: William Burn
Date: 1839-44Architect: David Bryce
Date: 1839-44John 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