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Design for a Mansionhouse

Architect: Leiper, William, RSA · 1839-1916

Design for a Mansionhouse

The actual "Mansionhouse" depicted in William Leiper's Diploma Work is not indicated in the title, however when exhibited at the RSA Centenary…

The actual "Mansionhouse" depicted in William Leiper's Diploma Work is not indicated in the title, however when exhibited at the RSA Centenary Exhibition in 1926 it is cited as as 'Design for Additions to Earnock, Lanarkshire' and a similarly titled piece was exhibited at the RSA in 1877 'Additions to Earnock, Lanarkshire - design' catalogue number 901 which was probably the Diploma Work. The website of the Glasgow Digital Library (www.gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk) has an entry for Leiper where it refers to 'the unexecuted design for Earnock in Lanarkshire..That of Earnock is a perspective drawing in pen and ink by his own hand, and is hung at the Royal Scottish Academy as Mr. Leiper's diploma work.'The additions proposed in 1876 were therefore never executed. In the 1880's and 1890's Leiper was designing a number of mansionhouses in Helensburgh in a range of styles. In 1895 he had designed "Brantwoode" a house with half - timbering. See Simon Green's essay in " The Journal of the Architectural Society of Scotland, III, The Age of Mackintosh". (1992)