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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/101

Purpose

[1] Survey plan, 2 May 1759

Aspect

Plan of a nine-bay quadrangular house arranged around a small court, with pencil annotations indicating bows and a portico

Scale

bar scale of 1/13 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of Principal Floor of House for Willm Drake Esq / No 1 is Hall / No 2 is Large Parlour / No 3 is lesser Parlour / No 4 is Drawing Room / No 5 is Library / No 6 is Dressing Room / No 7 is Closet / No 8 is Evidence Room / No 9 is Stewards Room / No 10 is Staircase & Passage to Garden / No 11 is Closet for Housekeeper / No 12 is Housekeepers Room / No 13 is Servants Hall / No 14 is Butlers Room / No 15 are Passages / No 16 is Passage at common Entrance fronting Stables / No 17 are Stairs that Descend down to Cellars / No 18 are Back Staircases / No 19 is Best Staircase / No 20 is Water Closet / No 21 are for Cleaning Knives & Shoes & c / No 22 are Sheads for Wood & c / No 1 / No 2 / No 3 / No 4 / No 5 / No 6 / No 7 / No 8 / No 9 / No 10 / No 11 / No 12 / No 13 / No 14 / No 15 / No 15 / No 15 / No 15 / No 15 / No 16 / No 17 / No 18 / No 18 / No 19 / No 20 / No 21 / No 21 / No 21 / No 22 / No 22 / No 22 / Inner Court / Whole Extent above Plinth 98 ft 8 In / Whole Extent above Plinth 116 feet 4 Inches and room dimensions given (in pen in the hand of Stiff Leadbetter) Stewards Room / Butlers P / Hskeeper / Venetian Window (in pencil in the hand of Robert Adam)

Signed and dated

  • May 1759
    May 2d 1759

Medium and dimensions

Pen, red pen, pencil, wash and pink wash on laid paper (261 x 415)

Hand

Stiff Leadbetter

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
Tait, 1993, p. 24
Worsley, 2009, p. 60
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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