Auchterarder House Interior-general view of Bedroom

Description Auchterarder House Interior-general view of Bedroom

Date c. 1888

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

Catalogue Number SC 736919

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 9754

Scope and Content Bedroom, 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 walls of the room are lined with draped fabric, with a fabric frieze that continues into the elaborate bedhead of the half-tester bed. The bed, possibly Italian, is inlaid with ebony and ivory, and has gilded cherubs (putti) at each end of the footboard. The ornate wardrobe is Italianate, and there is a matching washstand, with ewer and pitcher, at the side of the bed. Many Victorian homes, even in the 1880s, did not have running water or bathrooms, but every bedroom had a washstand. This was a table, usually topped with marble, on which stood a basin and pitcher, with a lower shelf containing the 'commode' or 'chamber set' - a cup, shaving mug, soap dish and toothbrush. The chamber pot, also part of the chamber set, was used for night-time emergencies and was kept under the bed. A servant would empty the chamber pot in the morning. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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