Billiard rooms

NOTES: The House of Falkland was designed by William Burn in 1838-1844 for Onesiphorus Tyndall-Bruce. In 1887 it was bought by the third Marquess of Bute, who employed Robert Weir Schultz to transform the interior, the alterations being carried out between 1890-1900.

NOTES: These are tracings of working drawings for interior and exterior details, drawn by James Murray. From the 'Large Atlas Folio: Gothic and Italian', a volume of tracings of office drawings made by James Murray during the time he worked in Barry's office, 1839-1847.

NOTES: Alterations and decorations to the house were carried out for Godfrey Isaacs including dining room, Chinese Saloon and billiard room with ceiling of burnished copper.

NOTES: Alterations and decorations to the house were carried out for Godfrey Isaacs including dining room, Chinese Saloon and billiard room with ceiling of burnished copper.

NOTES: Now called Cottesmore School.

NOTES: This is a photograph of a water-colour by Baillie Scott. Blackwell was the house he designed for himself in Cumbria.

NOTES: A grand house originallly built in 1865 for Henry Angas, a grocer. It was considerably altered by Temple Moore in 1882-1887 for the new owner Harrison Holt, which included a billiard room and a drawing room. The house was further extended in the 'Elizabethan style' in 1898 by a local firm George Shepherdson, possibly to the designs of Moore.

NOTES: This drawing was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1889 (Ceiling, Billiard Room, no. 1879).

NOTES: See RIBA159311 for a colour version of this image.