Auchterarder House General view of rear elevation

Description Auchterarder House General view of rear elevation

Date c. 1888

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

Catalogue Number SC 736981

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 9744

Scope and Content Auchterarder House, Perth & Kinross, from the south-west (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. The original two-storeyed, red sandstone house (left) with its crowstepped gables, splendid dormer-heads, and strapwork balustrades over ground-floor bay windows, is all to Burn's design. Burnet's addition (right) of a long, single-storeyed winter garden linked to a billiards' room, was built in brighter Dumfries-shire sandstone with parapets continuing Burn's original strapwork. Burnet had used the idea of a conservatory or winter garden to link a large and otherwise detached apartment before. The billiards' room, as part of the gentlemen's territory of the house and used for smoking, would normally have been isolated from the family apartments. Although it had a garden door in the gable fronting the garden terrace, the main entrance was through the winter garden - an unusual arrangement as the winter garden was very much part of the ladies' domain. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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