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Latitude: 55.8894 / 55°53'21"N
Longitude: -3.4843 / 3°29'3"W
OS Eastings: 307259
OS Northings: 667251
OS Grid: NT072672
Mapcode National: GBR 403B.FN
Mapcode Global: WH5RQ.G70F
Plus Code: 9C7RVGQ8+Q7
Entry Name: Calder House
Listing Name: Calder House
Listing Date: 22 February 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 347439
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14153
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200347439
Location: Mid Calder
County: West Lothian
Electoral Ward: East Livingston and East Calder
Parish: Mid Calder
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: House
16th-17th cent. mansion incorporating walls of earlier
fortalice. Trad. L-plan, main block, 3-storeys (with laigh
floors to N.) and garret. Random rubble. Gabled. Slated
roofs.
Corbie-steps and buttress at W. end; skews, oculi, corner
stones at extension to E. Rusticated chimney-heads.
N. WING: 4 storeys and laigh floor. Extended in later 17th
century with skews etc. at gable end.
ADDITIONS: Built c.1780 and in 1880. In re-entrant angle
and on W. side of Wing. INTERIOR: Greatly altered. 3
contiguous vaulted chambers in older part of 1st storey
of main block; Drawing Room (Great Hall) in floor above has
pine panelling and tall windows. Kitchen and fine
scale-and-platt stair in Wing.
Seat of Lord Torphichen Barony of Calder has been held by
Sandilands family since c.1350.
In Great Hall in 1556, Knox openly celebrated the Reformed
Communion for the first time.
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