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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire: designs for landscape architecture, alterations to the house, and interior design for Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Baronet (created Lord Scarsdale 1761), 1759-72 (149)
    - Designs for buildings within the park, including a boat house, garden hut, garden pavilion, stables, farm offices, greenhouse, viewing tower, bridge, gateway, milestone, pheasant house, parsonage house, farm house and inn

Preliminary design, design and finished drawing for a milestone, 1760, unexecuted (3)

Though not executed the structure to support the milestone was begun with brickwork foundations. Later Samuel Wyatt adapted these foundations to support a larger pedestal to carry Joseph Wilton's Medicean lion. There are corresponding drawings in the Kedleston drawings collection.