[2] Design fo ground storey additions to a house, c1791, unexecuted

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  - Rudding Hall, Harrogate, Yorkshire, survey drawing and designs for additions to the house for Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, unexecuted (4)
    - Survey drawing, design and a finished drawing for additions to the house, c1791, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 34/99

Purpose

[2] Design fo ground storey additions to a house, c1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the ground storey of an eleven-bay building with the central five-bays flanked by projecting three-bays. There is a central colonnaded entrance porch which links to a hall. The porch is flanked by a room for porters and servants, and the hall is surrounded by staircases, with the dog-legged principal staircase to the south. On the east and west sides of the building there are bedrooms and dressing rooms, with the bedroom to the north west containing a canted bay window and a niche. To the rear of the building ante rooms link to an eating room and drawing room. The eating room has a canted bay window and links to the breakfast room, and the drawing room has a pair of canted bays and one apsidal end. Beyond the eating room there is a passage which links to an irregularly shaped, projecting room on the eastern side of the building

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design for adding to the present House at Rudding hall in Yorkshire (underwritten in pencil) / Eating room / Breakfast room / Study / Drawing room / Passage / Bed Chambr / Anti room / Principal Stairs / Anti room / Stairs / Stairs / Bed Chamber / Hall / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Water Closet / Porters room / Porch / Servts room / Water Closet / Dressing room and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

c1791
Albemarle Street (cropped) c1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink wash on laid paper (489 x 283)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 27
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 133
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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