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Auchterarder House General view of porte cochere.
SC 736896
Description Auchterarder House General view of porte cochere.
Date c. 1888
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 736896
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 9586
Scope and Content Carriage Porch, 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 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. This massive, arched carriage porch (porte-cochère) was added by Burnet over the main entrance of the house. The porch, beautifully sculpted in bright Dumfries-shire sandstone, has attached Roman Doric columns, and a row of armorial crests, some bearing a lion's head, along the frieze. The change in colour from the original rich red sandstone of the house can be seen on the far right, where Burnet continues Burn's original strapwork parapet. A porte-cochère was a porch large enough for horse-drawn carriages to pass through, and was usually built at the entrance to a courtyard. It allowed vehicles to stop and discharge their passengers under cover, and allowed passengers to enter the house without fear of being exposed to inclement weather. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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