[14] Design for the south front of stable offices, 1776, as executed

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/37

Purpose

[14] Design for the south front of stable offices, 1776, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a one-and-a-half-storey, four-bay stable block with a hipped roof. On the ground storey there is a double entrance in the first bay, with windows and an additional entrance beyond, and there is a Doric colonnade with a frieze of rosette roundels. In the upper register there are half-height windows, with an alternative set of windows set within relieving arches and flanked by paired Doric columns. There is an axial section of the stable block, with stable bays formed with curved screens which terminate in balusters surmounted by finials

Scale

bar scale of 2 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

South front of Stable Offices with a Section across the long Stable / (and in the hand on William Adam, underwritten in pencil) for His Grace the Duke of Roxburgh Hanover Square / A fair Copy of this delivered and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

August 1776
Adelphi August 16.t 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (592 x 498)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 293
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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