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General Plaistow: unexecuted designs for a coach house and a bridge, 1779-1782 (4)

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  • 1779-82

Notes

General Plaistow is unknown; presumably an army officer. These designs for a coach house and bridge were commissioned in 1779 and 1782, but their intended location is unknown, and they are not thought to have been executed.

Literature:
A.T. Bolton, The architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1922, Volume II, Index pp. 57, 84; D. King, The complete works of Robert & James Adam and unbuilt Adam, 2001, Volume II, p. 227

Frances Sands, 2015

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Contents of General Plaistow: unexecuted designs for a coach house and a bridge, 1779-1782 (4)