[1] Design for the basement floor of a house, 1790, executed in part

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  - Dunbar House, also known as Lauderdale House, East Lothian: Designs for additions to a house for James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, 1790-92, executed in part (12)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/53

Purpose

[1] Design for the basement floor of a house, 1790, executed in part

Aspect

Ground (basement) plan showing a large house with a central projecting bow and projecting flanking wings, and a large service range enclosing a kitchen court and additional yard to the left. In the main house, the rooms include a servants hall, strong room, bedrooms, and multiple cellars for wine, ale and cider. In the service wing, rooms include a kitchen, wash house, scullery, pantry and additional service rooms. The different colour washes denote the existing house (grey) and proposed additions (black and pink)

Scale

bar scale of 7/8 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground Story of the Earl of Lauderdale’s House at Dunbar / Clean^g / Ashes / Shoes / Clean^g / Knives / S[_ _ _]g / P[_ _]d / Ashes / [D[_ _ _ _ _] / Womens Privy / Gate / Mens Privy / Wood / Coals / Shed / Yard / Wash / House / Mangler / Dry Larder / Wet Larder / Pantry / Scullery / Small / Bin / Scullery / to / Dairy / Dairy / Bricks / Kitchen Court / Kitchens / Pastry / Lobby / Oven / Coal Shed / Porters room / Servants Hall / Butlers room / Butlers Pantry / Stewards room / Valet room / Strong room / House Keepers / Stillroom / Store room / Housekeepers Bed room / Cellar for / bottled wine / Butlers bottles / Wine in Casks / Ale & Cyder Cellar with some room dimensions and annotations in pencil. (Verso) Lord Lauderdale / No. 5 / No. 5 / Plan Dunbar House / & Offices ~ / (in a different hand) house P

Signed and dated

31/03/1790
Albemarle Street / 31 March 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including pink on laid paper (842x306)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J Whatman / W surmounted by a banner and a fleur de lis

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 10
King, 2001, Volume 2, p. 217
Further literary references in the scheme notes

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