[1] Design for a house, 1790, unexecuted

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  - Congleton or Congalton, East Lothian: Designs for a house and stables for William Grant, Esquire, 1790, unexecuted (6)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/83

Purpose

[1] Design for a house, 1790, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground (basement) storey plan of a house comprising a rectangular house divided into a series of small rooms with a central bow to the rear and small staircase to the front. Rooms include a butler’s pantry, servant’s hall and bedrooms and wine cellar. There are flanking pavilions which contain an ale and wine cellar on the left, and kitchen with a scullery and pantry on the right, and are connected to the house by lateral wings containing a passage and small rooms. Adjoining the right pavilion is a services wing containing two ranges enclosing a arcaded court. Rooms include a privy, dairy and spaces for coals, wood and ashes

Scale

bar scale of 5/8 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground Story of a new Design for William Grant Esqr at Congleton in East Lothian / Ales & Wine in Casks / Small Beer / Cellar / Butlers Pantry / Servts Bedroom / Passage / [_ _ _ _ _ _ _] room / Wine / Cellar / [_ _ _ _ _] / [_ _ _ _] / Bottle rack / Store room / Servants Hall / Dry / Larder / Wet / Larder / Passage / Kitchen / Scully / Pantry / Privy / Wigs / Dairy /Smithy / Shoes & Knifes / Coals / Wood / Ashes with some room dimensions. (Verso) 3

Signed and dated

30/04/1790
Albemarle Street / 30^th April 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (464x272)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

Curtels & Sons

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 7
Further literary references in scheme notes

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Drawing

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