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[13] Design for a house, 1785, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 37/103
Purpose
[13] Design for a house, 1785, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a five-bay addition to an existing seven-bay block. The ground-storey level of the five-bay block has two-tier, tripartite, lancet windows, and this is flanked by two-tier single lancet windows. At the first-storey level there is a tripartite lancet window, flanked by further lancet windows. The block terminates in square turrets, with narrow windows at the ground and first-storey levels, and the roof line of the building is ornamented with crosses. Beyond the block there is a square tower with a pyramidal roof supporting a weather vane, and there is a porte cochère with an arched entrance and rounded turrets containing lancet and oculi windows. The existing seven-bay building is formed with a two-storey, five-bay block, with the central three bays canted and containing a central stepped entrance. The entrance is flanked by Ionic wreathed columns, and beyond this there are windows. The block terminates in single-bay, projecting pavilions with pitched roofs and quarter-height windows in the attic register. This block links to a two-storey, canted bay block with windows, and a single storey, polygonal block with an entrance
Scale
bar scale of 1 3/8 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
South front of the additional Building to Saint Hill House & front of the present House / (and in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) for Gibbs Crawford Esqr / 103 (pencil)
Signed and dated
- December 1785
Adelphi / 15.t Dec.r 1785
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (597 x 474)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Verso
2 / 0 / 2 / 0 (crossed through)
Watermark
GR surmounted by a banded cartouche supporting a fleur-de-lis
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 27
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 164
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 164
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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