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  - Wyreside Hall, Nether Wyresdale, Dolphinholme, Lancashire: alternative designs for alterations to the house for John Fenton Cawthorne, 1786-92 (6)

Preliminary design and design for a castle-style house, 1786-90, unexecuted (2)

Adam’s castle-style design for alterations to Wyreside was not executed. Rowan has described this scheme as a ‘hybrid version’ of Adam’s neo-classical alternative scheme which was partly built.

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Wyreside Hall, Nether Wyresdale, Dolphinholme, Lancashire: alternative designs for alterations to the house for John Fenton Cawthorne, 1786-92 (6)

[1] Preliminary design for a house, 1786-90, unexecuted

Wyreside Hall, Nether Wyresdale, Dolphinholme, Lancashire: alternative designs for alterations to the house for John Fenton Cawthorne, 1786-92 (6)

[2] Design for a house, 1786-90, unexecuted

datable to 1786-90

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam (underwritten in pencil)

SM Adam volume 36/99

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