[6] Preliminary design for a house, c1782

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Cobham (possibly The Mount), Surrey, variant designs for a house and additions for William Saltonstall, 1782-3, unexecuted (9)
    - Preliminairy designs and designs for alterations to a house, c1782, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/52 (verso)

Purpose

[6] Preliminary design for a house, c1782

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, three-bay block with a hipped, balustraded roof and the central bay projecting. The central, pedimented bay is two-and-a-half-storeys in height and contains an entrance, with a string course and semi-circular-headed window above. In the upper register there is a Diocletian window, and the pediment is surmounted by acroteria. The central bay is flanked by half-height windows at the ground and first-storey levels. The principal block is flanked by single-bay pavilions to the east and west. The western pavilion is a single storey in height and contains a semi-circular-headed window set behind a colonnaded screen. The pavilion is surmounted by a pyramidal roof bearing a weather vane. The alternative pavilion to the east is two storeys in height, with a quarter-height window at the first-storey level

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

c1782
c1782

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (472 x 242)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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