[5] Design for the south front of the house, c1790, unexecuted

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  - Ninewells, Berwickshire, designs for a house for Joseph Home, c1790, unexecuted (5)
    - Designs for a house, c1790, unexecuted (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/109

Purpose

[5] Design for the south front of the house, c1790, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, five-bay block, with a hipped roof and the central three bays forming a bow front. There is a central, stepped entrance flanked by Doric columns and three-quarter-height windows. At the first-storey level there are balustraded, full-height windows, with the windows in the first and fifth bays set within relieving arches. In the upper register there are half-height windows. The central block is flanked by single-storey, single-bay, balustraded link blocks, and these contain entrances surmounted by oculi and set within relieving arches. The blocks link to one-and-a-half-storey, five-bay pavilions with pitched roofs. The central three bays are projecting and are surmounted by pyramidal roofs bearing weather vanes. At the ground-storey level there is a Diocletian window, with a tripartite window above. The flanking bays contain slit windows

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

South front for Ninewells house and offices for Joseph Home Esquire and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

c1790
c1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (530 x 264)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 132, pl.16
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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