[7] Design for the side elevation of a house and stable court, 1791, executed in part

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  - House of the Bush, Midlothian: designs for a house and stables for Robert Trotter, 1791, executed in part (9)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/85

Purpose

[7] Design for the side elevation of a house and stable court, 1791, executed in part

Aspect

Side elevation of a house with an additional wing to the rear and adjoining walls and gates. The house is a two-storey, five-bay building over a half-sunk basement, with corner pepper-pot turrets and a large round tower with a conical roof. The entrance stairs are balustraded and run over a lightwell. The elevation is adorned with continuous plat bands, hood mouldings, machicolated cornices and crenelations. Adjoining the main house to the rear is a smaller two-storey, three-bay block with a hipped roof and corner bartizan. There are two single-storey outbuildings attached to the rear of the house followed by a fenced wall with a pedestrian gate and carriage gate

Scale

bar scale of ¾ of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) House of the Bush Robert Trotter Esq^r (underwritten in pencil) / (in pencil) Right copy / (verso) no 2 / no 2

Signed and dated

30/12/1791
Edin^r 30 Dec^r / 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (483x307)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 5
King, volume 1, 2001, pp. 394, 406
King, volume 2, 2001, pp. 161, 216, 244
Further literary references in scheme notes

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