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Reference number

SM Adam volume 32/42

Purpose

[13] Design for a farm office building c1763-5, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground plan of a colonnaded semicircular court of farm offices, composed of five pavilions, and four portions of link corridor, and containing kitchens, brickworks, a hen house, stables, barns, pig sty, slaughter house, cow house, and dairy, and surrounded by various yards

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Ground Plan of Farm Offices for Moore Park one of the Seats of Sir Lawrence Dundass Baronet / Study / Kitchen / Brick Kitchen / Smiths Shop &c / Poultry maid / Hatching Room / Hen House / Waggon Way & Grainery Over / Harness Room / Stable / Barns / Stable / Pig Sty / Slaughter house / Hornes / Waggon Way & Grainery Over / Cow House / Calves / Dairy / Scullery to Dairy and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1763-1765
    datable to 1763-65

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (579 x 495)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 223
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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