Auchterarder House General view of entrance front

Description Auchterarder House General view of entrance front

Date c. 1888

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number BL 9743

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 736924, B 64035

Scope and Content Main Entrance, Auchterarder House, Perth & Kinross, from the south (latterly Auchterarder House Hotel and presently a private house) Auchterarder House, a Neo-Jacobean mansion house designed in 1834 by William Burn for Captain James Hunter, was extended and lavishly refurbished in 1886-7 by the architect, Sir John James Burnet, for the railway locomotive magnate, James Reid. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the house c.1888. Burnet added a massive arched stone carriage porch (right) to the main entrance front, and enclosed the forecourt with a balustrade. The porch was integrated in design with a low, single-storeyed winter garden (centre) and a billiard room (left) with a broad inglenook projection on the crowstepped gable facing the entrance front, and a columned window on the south-east flank. Burnet linked all three with parapets continuing Burn's original elegant strapwork. In country houses, the billiards' room was normally isolated from the family apartments (as is the case here) as it was part of the gentlemen's domain and used for smoking. Here, however, the arrangement is somewhat unusual. Although the billiards' room has a garden door to the terrace (out of sight), the main entrance is through the winter garden, part of the ladies' domain. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Glass

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