[1] Preliminary design of a house, c.1787-88, unexecuted

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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 1/267

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design of a house, c.1787-88, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan and elevation of a house. The floor plan shows a house comprising a central block with flanking quadrant wings and walled gardens. The central block comprises five rooms and a staircase with a canted bay to the rear. The internal layout of the quadrant wings are not shown The elevation shows the principal front of the house, a two-storey building over a half-sunk basement. At the centre is a balustraded peron staircase leading to a two-storey pedimented portico with a large fan light. The flanking wings terminate at principal floor level with pyramidal roofs. There appears to be rusticated detailing at basement level

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

McCulloch of Barholme Esqr / with some calculations

Signed and dated

c.1787-88
Rowan dates this drawing to c.1787 though no clear evidence for this date has been found

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (190x200)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

W (illegible)

Notes

There are a number of calculations written in pencil on the drawing which appear to relate to the cost of the scheme itself. See Rowan for further information.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 3
Rowan, 1985, pp. 16, 68-69, 152-55
Further literature references in scheme notes

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