Description:The Principle Drawing Room at West Hill was another lavishly decorated room with handsome features and elegant furniture exhibiting the wealth of the Leveson-Gower family.
A ‘handsome Brown & pink’ carpet and a ‘crimson ground fringed hearth rug’ carpeted the room, which housed ‘an elegant square 7 ft sofa’ which had a ‘massive carved white & gold frame’. The sofa was ‘beautifully painted with medallions…and handsome flower borders’, and stood on ‘carved & gilt legs’.
The sofa was accompanied by twelve ‘elegant square back’ chairs which were also carved in white and gold to co-ordinate with the sofa. In addition to these twelve chairs, eighteen ‘Japanned white’ and green elbow chairs featured in the room.
Rosewood furniture appears to have been popular at West Hill, the Drawing Room featuring a rosewood table with a ‘gilt moulded edge’. Other furniture included ‘a pair of handsome 4ft8 high carved white & gold…pedastals’ and ‘a handsome 5ft shaped front Satinwood…pier table on a superb white & gold carved frame’ with ‘fluted legs’ and an ‘immitation Marble plinth’.
Gold featured prominently in the room, with ‘a pair of handsome bronzed & gilt pole fire screens’. These were complemented by the extravagant light fitting in the centre of the room, the six light ‘Ormalu Chandelier’. The chandelier had ‘elegant scroll branches’ and ‘leaf ornaments’.
Other features in the Drawing Room included a ‘small music desk’, mahogany tables, rosewood screens and ‘a pair of Ormalu antique shape patent lamps’.