[3] Finished drawing for the first storey of a house, 1788, executed to a variant design

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  - Balhazy or sometimes known as Barholm House, Creetown, Dumfries and Galloway: designs for a house for John McCulloch, executed to a variant of these designs, c.1787-88 (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 30/116

Purpose

[3] Finished drawing for the first storey of a house, 1788, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Plan of the principal storey (first storey) of a house comprising a central block and two flanking wings. In the central block is a central principal staircase, drawing room, dining room and octagonal breakfast room to the rear. There are perron staircases to the front and rear of the house. The flanking wings contain the powdering room, water closets, stairs and servants bedrooms

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Principal Story (and in the hand of William Adam) for John MacCulloch Esqr / Servants Bedroom / Water Closet / Powdering room / Drawing room / Breakfast room / Staircase / Dining room / Powdg room / Servants Bedrooms / with some room dimensions and illegible pencil annotations. [Verso] 5

Signed and dated

29 March 1788
Albermale Street / 29 March 1788

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within ruled border on laid paper (467x271)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

GR with a fleur de lys within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, II, Index, p. 3
Rowan, 1985, pp. 68-69
Further literature references in scheme notes

Level

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