[10] Design for the first floor of a stable block, 1792, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - 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)
    - Designs for a stable block, 1792, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/60

Purpose

[10] Design for the first floor of a stable block, 1792, unexecuted

Aspect

First floor plan of a stable block comprising a central range with flanking projecting wings. The central block is one single range comprising a hay loft and passage and two small end rooms. The flanking pavilions are divided into four main spaces comprising a hay loft, granary, coachman’s/groom’s rooms, closet and set of stairs

Scale

bar scale of 7/8 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the second Story of the Stable offices for the Earl of Lauderdale at Dunbar / Coachmans / room / hay loft / Granary / Coachmans / room / Closet / Hay loft / Passage / Grooms / room / hay loft / Granary / Grooms / room / Closet and some room dimensions

Signed and dated

6/12/1792
Albemarle Street / 6^th Decem^r 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including red on laid paper (472x276)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Watermark

fleur de lis [in part]

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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