In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries this room was used as a Billiard Room, but in the eighteenth century it was known as the Yellow Drawing Room.
Green and pink were the colours originally intended for this room but, after work had begun Edwin Lascelles bought a quantity of yellow silk which he wished to use on the walls. The colour scheme for the rest of the room had to be changed to accommodate this, including adding yellow to the ceiling. It appears as though the carpet had already been started and could not be changed at such a late stage. The colours in the ceiling and the silk on the walls have been restored to fit the 18th century scheme.
Two great Chippendale looking glasses dominate the room, like others in the House they were partly stripped of their ornamentation by the Victorians and in 1993-4 painstakingly restored by Carvers and Gilders.
Pictures include a series of family portraits; Mrs. Hardinge (a family connection) by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) to the left of the chimneypiece and to the right the highly decorative portrait of Adelina Patti, the great 19th century opera singer by Winterhalter.
The china figures on the table are modern Biscuit de Sèvres, given to the 6th Earl of Harewood and Princess Mary by the City of Paris.
