General view of West Lodge and gates

Description General view of West Lodge and gates

Date c. 1888

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

Catalogue Number BL 9741

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 736048, B 64027

Scope and Content West Lodge, Auchterarder House, Perth & Kinross (latterly Auchterarder House Hotel and presently a private house) Auchterarder House, a Neo-Jacobean mansion house designed in 1834 by William Burn, was extended in 1886-7 by the architect, Sir John James Burnet, who also designed a lodge house at the entrance to the main driveway. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, photographed the lodge c.1888. This charming Old English-style stone-built cottage, named West Lodge, nestles among mature trees at the foot of the driveway. It has a large central chimney, a pretty, half-timbered gable facing the driveway, and a broad, steeply pitched roof which envelopes a veranda supported by massive wooden posts. John James Burnet (1857-1938) was born in Glasgow, son of the architect, John Burnet. He began his architectural education in 1871 with his father, and completed it in 1875-7 at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Although his domestic work was overshadowed in his own day by his great public and commercial works, he designed and remodelled many fine country houses throughout Scotland in a range of styles from Victorian Baronial to Cubist. He was knighted in 1914. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Glass

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