Vogrie House forms the centrepiece of

Vogrie Country Park Vogrie Country Park in Scotland is managed by Midlothian Council. It consists of a woodland estate surrounding the Victorian Vogrie House. It is located around from Edinburgh between Pathhead and Gorebridge. Facilities in the parkland include ...

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. It was built for James Dewar and his family in 1876 by

Andrew Heiton Andrew Heiton (3 April 1823 – 3 March 1894) was a Scottish architect.Andrew Heiton
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, the town

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. Dewar was the creator of Dewar's whisky. Vogrie House - geograph

The current house is an example of Victorian baronial splendour and is said to be one of the best surviving examples of Heiton's work. The house was a typical country house with a library, servants' quarters and many bedrooms. Transformed in 1926 into a nursing home for the

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, by

Ernest Auldjo Jamieson Ernest Arthur Oliphant Auldjo Jamieson FRIBA MID (1880–1937) was a Scottish architect operating in the early 20th century. He specialised in country houses, largely for wealthy family friends. From after the First World War he also got many com ...

the house was sold on to local government in the 1950s and had a role during the

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as a control centre for communications.

Early history

John Lumsden of Blanerne sold the lands of Vogrie to

Samuel Cockburn of Templehall Samuel Cockburn of Templehall and Vogrie (died 1614) was a Scottish landowner, diplomat, and Sheriff-principal of Edinburgh. He was a son of John Cockburn of Ormiston and Alison Sandilands (died 1584), a daughter of Sir John Sandilands of Calder. ...

and his wife Elizabeth Douglas in 1590. The transaction included the assent of members of the wider Lumsden family, and was witnessed by the Edinburgh merchant

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, father-in-law of Robert Lumsden of Ardrie.John Maitland Thomson
''Register of the Great Seal of Scotland'', vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1888), pp. 599-600 no. 1576
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Vogrie Country Park
- official site, includes Vogrie House

Early history

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