[34] Design for a house and adjoining offices, c1784, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Brasted Place, Kent, a house and interiors for Doctor John Turton, c1784-88 (44)
    - Preliminary designs, designs and finished drawings for a third scheme for a house, c1784, as executed (12)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/71

Purpose

[34] Design for a house and adjoining offices, c1784, as executed

Aspect

Longitudinal section of a building, with a hipped roof and a part-sunken basement, and with a preliminary design for a staircase which extends from the basement-storey to the first-storey level. Beyond the principal building there is a further building, with a hipped roof and a sunken basement. At the basement-storey level there is a passageway containing semi-circular-headed doorways, and steps lead up to a further space, and with doorways and steps down to a lower basement level. Further west there is a Doric colonnade and a pump, which is attached to a well

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through Doctor Turtons House (in the hand of William Adam) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

c1784
c1784

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink and Naples yellow washes within a single ruled border on laid paper (482 x 312)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

Small plans of / Brasted Place

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 4
Rowan, 1985, p. 38, pls. 8-10
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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