Ormiston Hall
- HER number: MEL348
- Site Name: Ormiston Hall
- Grid Reference: 341223 667716
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- Summary: Site of mansion, built 1745, gutted by fire 1940
- Description: NT46NW 17 41224 67717.
(NT 41224 67717) Ormiston Hall: The NE structure is 17th c in date. It is L-shaped on plan with the re-entrant angle facing S. The larger wing on the NE is 47 1/4' x 25 3/4' externally; the shorter wing projects 20' from the lateral wall and is 27' wide. Adjoining the lesser wing and communicating with it is another structure.
RCAHMS 1924
Ormiston Hall is now in ruins, having been burnt down during the Second World War. The E walls remain to a height of about 9.0m and the W walls to 1.0m. Some of the walling and windows have been restored and the whole is incorporated within a private garden.
Visited by OS (BS) 20 October 1975
Ormiston Hall: Only some fragments of two successive houses. First the Hall, built for John Cockburn of Ormiston by John Baxter, mason, in 1745-8, extended by Alexander Steven and George Tod for the Earl of Hopetoun in 1772, and further enlarged in the early 19th century. Of this there is only a doorpiece and three ground-floor bays, with a projecting section of five bays to the right. Beside it, a zigzag wall with slits at the angles, probably a screen to a laundry yard in which clothes were dried. Then the old Ormiston House of which a part has been incorporated in the office courtyard nearby. This includes vaulted cellars and an arched and roll-moulded doorway.
C McWilliam 1978
NT46NW 17.00 41224 67717
NT46NW 3 4110 6758 St Giles Church
NT46NW 17.01 41328 68266 Ormiston Hall Lodge
NT46NW 17.02 41294 67198 South Lodge
NT46NW 22 41108 67619 The Old Hall
NT46NW 26 41244 67360 Dovecot
NT46NW 44 41326 67955 Belsis Cottage and Walled Garden
NT46NW 51 41146 67634 Stables
NMRS NOTES:
Built 1745
Additon 1772 executed by Alexander Steven George Tod
Ormiston Hall gutted c.1940
John Smith - design for an orangery 1745 - Resources:
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- For more information contact: East Lothian Council HER
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- Sources:
- Bibliographic reference: Small, J. 1883a. The castles and mansions of the Lothians.
- Bibliographic reference: RCAHMS. 1924. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Eighth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of East Lothian. 81, No.131.
- Bibliographic reference: McWilliam, C E. 1978a. Lothian except Edinburgh. 372-3.