Interior-general view of Library of Curling Hall, now demolished

Description Interior-general view of Library of Curling Hall, now demolished

Date 1893

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

Catalogue Number SC 702743

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 12107

Scope and Content Library, Curling Hall, Largs, North Ayrshire (latterly the Marine and Curlinghall Hotel and now demolished) Curling Hall, a large mansion overlooking the seafront at Largs, was built in 1812. In 1892 the house was extended by the architect, Thomas Graham Abercrombie, and refurbished by Wylie & Lochhead, Glasgow, for John Clark. Harry Bedford Lemere was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1893. The library, in the original part of the house, has a simple cornice and plain ceiling. The walls are lined to dado height with fitted cupboards that include bookshelves and semicircular cupboards on either side of the fireplace for tobacco and smoking implements. In the Victorian household, the library was generally regarded as part of the male domain, and was usually decorated with panelling and in sombre tones. Here, the room probably combined the functions of library with those of smoking room and study, becoming a comfortable, all-purpose male room. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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