[5] Design for the garret storey of a house, 1788, executed to a variant design

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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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 30/118

Purpose

[5] Design for the garret storey of a house, 1788, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Plan of the garret storey and roof of a house. The garret level is divided into three rooms and a staircase. The roof plan shows two chimney stacks on a hipped roof with a pitched roof to the front and pyramidal roof to the rear

Scale

bar scale of of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Garrett Story (and in the hand of William Adam) for John MacCulloch Esqr / Plan of the Roofs / with some illegible pencil annotations. [Verso] to be placed twenty seventh / [M]cculloch’s plans / 7 / 27

Signed and dated

29 March 1788
Albermale Street / 29 March 1788

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (475x255)

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

Drawing

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