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  • image SM Adam volume 41/85

Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/85

Purpose

[12] Design for stable offices, c1773, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a one-and-a-half-storey, three-bay stable block, which terminates in one-and-a-half-storey, one-by-two-bay pavilions with pitched roofs. The central block contains three double-height entrances, with Diocletian windows set above. The flanking pavilions contain side entrances, and the principal front contains full-height windows at the ground-storey level, with a string course and half-height windows at the first-storey level

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Offices for Ray Hall the seat of Sir James Wright Bart (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / Sir Js Wright (pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1782
    c1782

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (502 x 374)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 26
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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