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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/87

Purpose

[8] Design for a house, stable offices, cottages and grounds, c1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the ground floor of a building as SM Adam volume 37/84. The building is flanked by walled courtyards and the principal front is approached by a semi-circular carriage way. Beyond this, paired steps lead down into a formal garden with curved pathways which lead to a stepped, curved monument or seat, set behind a colonnade. All this is enclosed by walls and at the entrances to the carriage way there are turrets containing circular staircases. To the right of the formal gardens there are a series of stable courtyards and coach houses. Along West Street there are nine tenement cottages, consisting of two rooms, a passageway and staircases leading to the upper floor. Eight of the cottages have yards to the rear, which contain privies. At the corner of West Street and adjacent to the stable courts there is an additional, semi-circular shaped cottage, with a left-hand entrance set behind a colonnade. The cottage is formed of a central room flanked by an apsidal-ended room and a passage linking to a semi-circular staircase. To the rear of the cottage there is a triangular-shaped yard containing a privy

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

2.d Design of a House for John Robinson Esquire / at Harwich, shewing its proposed Situations as removed / backwards, not to intercept the View of the Light House / at the entrance of the River, also the two tenements to be let where the present House stands, & ten tenements / for the Poor in West Street extending from the Light / House Gate to the Square, & a Court of Stable Offices / round that Area called the Square, with Flower and Kitchen Gardens & the present Fossee(?) converted into a Shrubbery &c- / Court / Drawing room / Eating room / Hall / Dress.g room / Library / Court / Stable Court / Stable / Harness room / Coach House / Coach House / Coach House / Stable / Stable Court / No. 26 (brown ink)

Signed and dated

  • c1778
    c1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including verdegris, olive green, Naples yellow and pink on laid paper (786 x 630)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Verso

Number 18 (brown ink) / 18 (pencil) / Harwich House (in the hand of William Adam, pencil) / John Robinson Esqr / Harwich Plans / 7

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 17
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 245
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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