House Tour
The Blue Striped Dressing Room
The Blue Striped Dressing Room and Blue Striped Room with their Dark Room behind all made up a single
lodging. This part of the house is basically Tudor and this room must always have been small.
They took their present shape during the early 1740s when this wing was modernised with 'apartments' for the most
important members of the family and their guests. Money was scarce at Temple Newsam after the financial disaster
of the South Sea Bubble in 1720 and until the marriage of the future 9th Viscount to an heiress in 1758. Hence
the alterations undertaken over this period were mainly the work of Yorkshire craftsmen rather than more expensive
London masters.
The bed alcove was installed by Mrs Meynell Ingram in 1886 and the walls have been hung with a facsimile reprint
of the wallpaper used at this later date, Gilbert Scott's 'Genoese'. Traces of earlier wall coverings used here
and in the adjoining Blue Striped Room in the 1770s, 1829 and 1865 have also been found.
Blue Striped Room
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