Auchterarder House Interior-general view of Dining Room

Description Auchterarder House Interior-general view of Dining Room

Date c. 1888

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

Catalogue Number SC 736916

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 9746

Scope and Content Dining Room, 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 interior c.1888. The dining room has a richly decorated compartmented ceiling with gilding and pendants, and a gilded cornice with the picture rail forming its lower edge. The walls are lined with dado panelling with flock wallpaper panels above, and the door has an ornate pediment with a gilded crest in the centre. The furniture, in a Jacobean style, has stamp-leather chairs and matching sideboard with a fitted surround containing both candelabra and gas lamps. A portrait of James Reid hangs over the fireplace. James Reid was born in 1823 in Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, and rose from rather humble origins to become the owner of Hyde Park Street Locomotive Works in Springburn, Glasgow, the largest railway locomotive firm in the United Kingdom with a workforce of 2,500 and an annual production of over 250 engines. Reid was President of the Fine Art Institute, President of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Chairman of the Glasgow Tramway Company, Lord Dean of Guild, and a Justice of the Peace for Lanarkshire and Perthshire. He died while playing golf at St Andrews in 1894. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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