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Ruins of Woodbank House
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at WoSAS for a detailed description, and Link (at Canmore) for a selection of aerial views. From at least the fourteenth century, the site was called, with some variations of spelling, Stuckrodger/Stuckrogert, or similar; by the nineteenth century, it had been renamed Woodbank House. In the twentieth century it was the Woodbank Hotel, then the Hamilton House Hotel, before falling into ruin.
Some have interpreted the name Stuckrogert as being from a Gaelic expression meaning "hill of the hangman"; if this interpretation is correct, the name presumably represents the Gaelic "Stùc a' Chrochaire".
In a charter by Donald, Earl of Lennox (earl from 1333—c.1364), the site is named Stukeroger. It is "Stochrothart" on the Pont/Blaeu map of the Lennox (published in 1654, but based on surveys carried out c.1580s—90s), and "Stockrogert" on Roy's Military Survey (1740s—50s).
Among the cuttings in Dumbarton Library is a timeline of the house's history, with information from David Keown (a former occupant) and Graham Hopner of the Library's local studies department. The following are among the details given there (the cuttings provide much more information than is given below).
Woodbank House, as it was in the twentieth century, was an accretion of construction work and alterations that had taken place over several centuries: a house, the core of the later buildings, was already standing here in 1650; Charles Scott of Woodbank is likely to have been responsible for the construction of the 18th-century mansion; as revealed by heraldic details visible on the building, William Ewing Gilmour of Croftengea was behind Victorian alterations to the house. In the twentieth century, it was used as a hotel before becoming a private dwelling once again.
The house was damaged by a disastrous fire in January 1996, and some demolition work took place later that year. In the following year, a gable of the earlier structure and a large part of the rear elevation collapsed.
at WoSAS for a detailed description, and Link (at Canmore) for a selection of aerial views. From at least the fourteenth century, the site was called, with some variations of spelling, Stuckrodger/Stuckrogert, or similar; by the nineteenth century, it had been renamed Woodbank House. In the twentieth century it was the Woodbank Hotel, then the Hamilton House Hotel, before falling into ruin.Some have interpreted the name Stuckrogert as being from a Gaelic expression meaning "hill of the hangman"; if this interpretation is correct, the name presumably represents the Gaelic "Stùc a' Chrochaire".
In a charter by Donald, Earl of Lennox (earl from 1333—c.1364), the site is named Stukeroger. It is "Stochrothart" on the Pont/Blaeu map of the Lennox (published in 1654, but based on surveys carried out c.1580s—90s), and "Stockrogert" on Roy's Military Survey (1740s—50s).
Among the cuttings in Dumbarton Library is a timeline of the house's history, with information from David Keown (a former occupant) and Graham Hopner of the Library's local studies department. The following are among the details given there (the cuttings provide much more information than is given below).
Woodbank House, as it was in the twentieth century, was an accretion of construction work and alterations that had taken place over several centuries: a house, the core of the later buildings, was already standing here in 1650; Charles Scott of Woodbank is likely to have been responsible for the construction of the 18th-century mansion; as revealed by heraldic details visible on the building, William Ewing Gilmour of Croftengea was behind Victorian alterations to the house. In the twentieth century, it was used as a hotel before becoming a private dwelling once again.
The house was damaged by a disastrous fire in January 1996, and some demolition work took place later that year. In the following year, a gable of the earlier structure and a large part of the rear elevation collapsed.
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Created: Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Updated: Thu, 11 Jul 2019
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