GOSFORD HOUSE

The estate is dominated by Gosford House, a particularly imposing neo-classical mansion. Gosford is also known as one of the last great architectural commissions of the celebrated Scots architect, Robert Adam. Following the architect's untimely death, the shell of the main house was finished in 1800. With the interior completed in 1808, the seventh Earl of Wemyss only occupied the house for 12 days before passing. As generations came and went, the house was much altered and the original wings demolished. The tenth Earl of Wemyss therefore commissioned William Young to recreate them. The architect and the Earl completed the construction in 1891, a century after the first stone was laid. Decades later, with WW2 breaking out and the British army taking over the house, Gosford suffered from damage... Constructed for the seventh Earl of Wemyss, the building was completed in 1800, eight years after the architect's death. Despite some consequent changes to his initial plans, Gosford is..

Primary location: Longniddry United Kingdom