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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/32

Purpose

[11] Design for the first storey of a building, 1766, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the first storey of a thirteen-by-five-bay building with a balustraded portico across the central five bays of the principal front. Within there is a square room with niches with a rectangular room to the right-hand side. The room has columnar screened ends with apsidal spaces beyond. At the rear of the building there is a central three-bay bow window set behind a balustraded columnar screen. There is a rectangular gallery space with unusually narrow rectangular storage spaces for the storage of organ barrels to the rear. On the left-hand side of the building there is a central room with an apse and bow window. On the right-hand side of the building there is a further room with an apsidal end mirrored by the bow window and this links to a circular room at the rear of the building. The principal building is flanked by curved links. On the left-hand side the link connects to a five-by-three-bay building containing servants’ rooms and a double-height brew house. To the rear of this there is a further six-by-two-bay building containing further bedrooms. The link on the right-hand side connects to a five-by-three-bay building containing a double-height kitchen and servants’ bedrooms. To the rear of this there is a further six-by-two-bay building containing further bedrooms

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Principal Story / of a new Design for Luton Park one of the seats of the Earl of Bute (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / area / Bed Room / Bed Room / Bed Room / Servants Room / Servants Room / Servants Room / B rooms / Brew house continued / Servants Room / Servants Room / Servants Room / Servants Room / Bed Room / Bed Room / Bed Room / Servants Room / Servants Room / Servants Room / Servants Room / Kitchen Continued / Servants Room / Servants Room and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • December 1766
    27 December 1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (712 x 468)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi or William Hamilton, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

2

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 21
Russell, 1992, pp. 44-47
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 85, 131
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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