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[1] Design for a house, 1790, unexecuted
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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 / 30th April 1790
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (464x272)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Watermark
Curtels & Sons
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 7
Further literary references in scheme notes
Further literary references in scheme notes
Level
Drawing
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