[1] Design for the basement storey of a house, 1778, unexecuted

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  - Harwich House, designs for a house for John Robinson, 1778, unexecuted (11)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/83

Purpose

[1] Design for the basement storey of a house, 1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the basement storey of a v-shaped building with a rear rotunda which forms a five-bay bow front. The circular room contains a servants' hall beyond which a passageway links to a kitchen set at a lower level and accessed by steps. The kitchen links to a scullery which contains a copper and is lit by external and internal windows. To the right-hand side of the servants hall there are wine binns, a store room and a housekeeper’s room. There is a central, irregularly-shaped hall, with stairs on the left-hand side. Towards the front of the house there is a passage lit with internal windows and a pair of irregularly-shaped larders

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground Story (and in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) of a House proposed to be built at Harwich for John Robinson Esqr / Servants Hall / Store room / Wine binns / Housekeepers room / Butlers pantry / Larder / Larder / Scullery / Kitchen / Door (pencil) / A (pencil) / B (pencil) / No. 11 (brown ink) / Mr. R has a fair Copy of this (brown ink) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

October 1778
Adelphi / 1.st Oct.r 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (535 x 335)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 17
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 162-63
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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