[16] Design for the basement storey of a building, 1767, unexecuted

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/24

Purpose

[16] Design for the basement storey of a building, 1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the basement storey of a nineteen-bay building, with the front and rear facades terminating in projecting three-bay bowed pavilions. The rooms to the front and rear are divided by a central corridor. There is a central vaulted cellar for wine, and this is flanked by rooms containing wine bins. To the rear there is a central vaulted, bowed cellar for cider and ale, and there are several other vaulted rooms including a strong room, still room, pantry and dairy. The bowed rooms on the left-hand side contain the servants’ hall and housekeeper’s room. The bowed rooms on the right-hand side contain bedrooms for the maids and footmen. Extending beyond the left and right-hand facades there are staircases leading to the ground storey

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Sunk Story of a new Design for Luton House / one of the Seats of (in the hand of William Adam) / The Right Honorable The Earl of Bute (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / 95 (pencil) / Housekeepers room / Store Room / Still Room / Butlers Pantry / Butlers Bed Room / Cyder and small Beer Cellar / Strong Room / Stewards room / Stewards Bed Room / Maids room / Footmens Room / Coals / Wine / Wine in Casks / Wine / Dairy / Scullery / Pastry / Servants Hall and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

April 1767
15 April 1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (733 x 516)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi, William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

Watermark

LVG surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 21
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 85, 131
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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