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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/95

Purpose

[2] Design for the ground storey of a house, kitchen offices and stables, 1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the ground storey of a thirteen-bay building, with the central three bays of the front and rear facades forming a bow, and the central seven-bay block is flanked by projecting, three-bay wings. The central entrance leads to an apsidal hall, with a colonnaded screen. To the rear there is a library with apsidal ends, and to the left of this there is a dog-leg staircase, with an additional staircase to the right. The three-bay wing to the left of the principal block contains an apsidal eating room, with niches, and an apsidal drawing room. The three-bay wing to the right contains domestic offices to the front and rear, and these are divided by a central passage. To the right of the principal building there is an extensive plan for domestic offices and stables. The domestic offices are formed around a rectangular courtyard, and this is flanked by additional courts which contain storage for ashes, wood and coal. The sculleries, wash house and brew house all contain coppers, and there is a circular dairy. Two sets of staircases lead to the upper floor. The rectangular courtyard links to an apsidal stable yard, with a central well (?) The yard is flanked by stables for coach horses, saddle horses and cart horses, with additional space for coaches and carts. Beyond the stable yard there is a menagerie alongside yards for pigs and poultry, and this links to the stack yard. The stack yard is surrounded by barns, straw yards, cattle sheds, a pigeon house and a carpenter’s workshop. Beyond the plan for the principal building and domestic offices, there is a preliminary design for a road

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Second Design for the General Plan of House & Offices for John Robinson Esqr at Syon Hill / N.B. The parts shaded red are what will remain of the present building / The parts shaded black are proposed to be new built- (in the hand of William Adam underwritten in pencil) / No. 8 (brown ink) / Mr. R. has a fair copy of this (brown ink) / Hall / Anti room / Eating room / Drawing room / Closet / Closet / Powdering room / Water Closet / Staircase / Library / Plate / Dress.g room / Staircase / Butlers Pantry / Butlers room / Store room / House keepers room / Dressing room / Servants Hall / Bottles / Passage (pencil) / Waiting room / Stewards room / Dairy / Scullery to Dairy / Scullery to Kitchen / Kitchen / Pastry & Bake house / Larder / Pantry / Kitchen Court / Ashes / Wood / Coals / Shoes. Boots etc. / Passage (pencil) / Court / Laundry / Wash house / Brew House / Scullery to Brew house / Ashes / Coals / Wood / Coach Harness room / Coach House / Coach House / Coach House / Coach House / Hay / Hay / Saddle horses / Cart Horses / Hay / Hay / Coach horses / [_ _ _ _ _] Binn / Coach horses / Hay / Cart Harness room (underwritten in pencil) / Cart House / Cart House / Cart House / Cart House / Slaughter House (underwritten in pencil) Menagerie / Pigs / Yard for Pig / Poultry Yard (underwritten in pencil) / Laying house / Feeding house / Rousting house / Stack Yard / Carpenters Work Shop / Raff (?) Yard / Saw Pitt / Barn / Straw Yard / Byers (sic) / Pidgeon house / Straw Yard / Barn / Straw Yard / Farmers Store room (underwritten in pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • October 1778
    Adelphi / Oct.r 24t / 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink wash on laid paper (968 x 596)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Verso

3 first Designs for alterations / Syon hill / 2

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 18
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 134
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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