General view of East front.
SC 695856
Description General view of East front.
Date 1904
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 695856
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 18623
Scope and Content Mount Stuart House, Isle of Bute, Argyll & Bute, from the east Mount Stuart, a magnificent architectural fantasy of the 3rd Marquess of Bute, was designed by the architect, Robert Rowand Anderson, after the original house was destroyed by fire in 1877. The east front was photographed by Harry Bedford Lemere in 1904. This 'Venetian Palace' front has a symmetrical arrangement of windows, with balconies at the centre and a first-floor oriel on each flank. It continues north (right) as the east side of the family chapel, and stretches south in a library wing (left). Mount Stuart was the first house in Scotland to be lit by electricity (1883), and a system of hot water pipes provided central heating. A telephone was installed in 1887, and the heated swimming pool was the first ever to be built within a house. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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