Interior -view of glasshouse
SC 700906
Description Interior -view of glasshouse
Date 1890
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 700906
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 10154
Scope and Content Conservatory, Kilnside House, Seedhill Road, Paisley, Renfrewshire (now demolished) Kilnside House, a large mansion built c.1836, was altered and extended in the 1880s for Stewart Clark, a partner in Clark & Company, the Paisley threadmakers. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1890. This large, metal-framed conservatory, is filled with a collection of ferns, climbers, azaleas and other flowering plants. It formed an extension wing to the house, and was entered from the drawing room or from the garden. The floor is covered with decorative encaustic tiles laid in a geometric pattern. The conservatory was an indoor garden for the collection of exotic plants, a popular Victorian pastime, and was often designed to show off the owner's newly discovered plants in the most flattering surroundings. Collections would usually include orchids, pineapples, camellias, palms, bamboos and ferns. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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