Camperdown House

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Camperdown House

Camperdown House is a mansion in the Scottish city ​​of Dundee in the council area of the same name . The property is now referred to as Camperdown Country Park . In 1963 the building was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A. The former stables, the sawmill, the South Lodge and the West Lodge are also classified as Category B structures. The former kitchen garden is a Category C monument. The entire property is on the Scottish Landscaping Register . The highest rating “outstanding” was given in one of six categories.

history

In the 16th century the property was known as "Lundie". Lundie House was built there in the 1540s . Alexander Duncan , from the locally influential Duncan family, acquired the property in the late 16th century. During the 18th century the family provided several mayors for Dundees. Admiral Adam Duncan commanded the British North Sea fleet in the victorious naval battle at Camperduin (English "Camperdown") and was raised to the rank of first Viscount Duncan .

It was his son and heir Robert Dundas Haldane-Duncan who had the Lundie House, which dates from the 1540s, demolished and the present mansion built between 1824 and 1828. William Burn had drawn up the plans for this as early as 1821. In the course of the new construction, the name of the property was changed to Camperdown . In 1831, Haldane-Duncan was raised to the rank of first Earl of Camperdown . As early as 1805 he had initiated the creation of the surrounding gardens and parks by David Taylor (later his son). The work dragged on until the 1850s.

Robert Haldane-Duncan, 3rd Earl of Camperdown , who died in 1918, was the last Earl of Camperdown to live in the manor house. In the United States living George Haldane-Duncan, 4th Earl of Camperdown died in 1933 without heirs, so the title became extinct. His heiress, the widow of Sidney Hobart-Hampden-Mercer-Henderson, 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire , died in 1941, whereupon Camperdown House changed hands several times before it was taken over by the city of Dundee in 1946. A golf course was opened in the western part of the property in 1949.

description

Camperdown House stands in the middle of the surrounding parkland in northwest Dundee. It is considered the largest Greek Revival building in Scotland. A portico with six Ionic columns, entablature and triangular gable protrudes from the east-facing main facade . Another, simpler portico is located in the middle of the eleven-axis south facade. At the rear of the two-story building there is a one-story utility wing. The final platform roof is covered with gray slate. A small, wooden dome rises in the middle.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  4. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  5. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  6. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  7. ↑ a b c d Garden and Designed Landscape - entry . In: Historic Scotland .

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Coordinates: 56 ° 29 ′ 4.1 ″  N , 3 ° 2 ′ 33.8 ″  W.