[4] Design for the ground storey of a new house, 1791, unexecuted

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 34/98

Purpose

[4] Design for the ground storey of a new house, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the ground storey of a five-bay block with square corner turrets. There is a central entrance with a semi-circular stepped colonnade, and this leads to an apsidal ended hall. The hall links to a staircase and bedchamber on the left, and a library on the right. To the rear of the hall there is a rectangular drawing room and an apsidal ended eating room. All of the turrets contain water closets and additional staircases. The bedchamber links to a turret also containing a dressing room and powdering room, and the library links to a corner turret containing a book room and dressing room. To the rear of the building the drawing room links to a turret containing a further bedroom, and the eating room links to a turret containing a buffet room. At the rear of the building there is a stepped colonnaded portico

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Principal Story of a new Design for Rudding hall in Yorkshire The Seat of the Rt. Hon.ble Lord Loughborough / Bedroom / Water Closet / Portico / Buffet room / Closet / Water Closet / Stairs / Drawing room / Eating room / Principal Stairs / Bed Chamber / Hall / Library / Stairs / Water Closet / Powdg room / Dress.g room / Porch / Stairs / Book room / Water Closet / Dress.g / North (pencil) / faint pencil inscription / Bath(?) (pencil) / Portico (pencil) / South (pencil) / James(?) Hamilton(?) Esqr [_ _ _ _ _ _ _] (pencil) and some dimensions and figures given

Signed and dated

April 1791
Albemarle Stre (cropped) / 27.t April 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (479 x 285)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 27
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 133
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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