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  - Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire: designs for the house and park for George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, 1763-71 (22)
    - Designs for the stables, domestic offices, orangery and menagerie, gatehouses, and dairy (18)

Design for an orangery and a menagerie house, 1764, unexecuted (1)

This menagerie, intended for the Duchess of Manchester, was not executed. Again, it is possible that the building was not realised because of the Duke's financial difficulties (see scheme notes).

There is a map, dated 1763, by Cosmo Wallace, in the Kimbolton archive (Huntingdon Library and Archives), and from this it is possible to determine the proposed location for the orangery and menagerie house. This position is now occupied by the Kimbolton School sports hall.

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Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire: designs for the house and park for George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, 1763-71 (22)

[14] Design for an orangery and a menagerie house, 1764, unexecuted

datable to c1764

Adam office hand: possibly George Richardson

SM Adam volume 30/146

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