Auchterarder House Distant view from grounds

Description Auchterarder House Distant view from grounds

Date c. 1888

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

Catalogue Number SC 736982

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 9742

Scope and Content Auchterarder House, Perth & Kinross, from the south (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 house stands in wooded parkland with views to the south to the Ochil Hills. Built in red sandstone, it shows much of Burn's original work with crowstepped gables and elaborate dormer windows. Burnet added a massive arched carriage porch or porte-cochère (centre) to the entrance front, and enclosed the forecourt with a balustrade. The architect, William Burn (1789-1870), was born in Edinburgh but worked both in Edinburgh and London during his career. As a pioneer of the Scottish Baronial style, he was responsible for designing a large number of country houses throughout Scotland, mainly for members of the aristocracy. His best-known public works include St John's Episcopal Church and the former John Watson's Hospital (now the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art) in Edinburgh. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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