[2] Designs 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 45/81

Purpose

[2] Designs for a house, 1790, unexecuted

Aspect

Upper: Elevation of a two-storey, three-bay house with flanking pavilions connected by single-storey balustraded wings. The central bay of the main house has a two-storey portico with Ionic columns supporting a pediment. There is a continuous string course across the entire elevation

Middle: Bedchamber (first) storey plan comprising a series of rooms arranged around a central staircase with a bowed room to the rear. Rooms include bed chambers, dressing rooms and a bedroom. The flanking pavilions are not connected to the main house and contain a bedchamber, closet and stairs

Lower: Principal (ground) story plan comprising a series of rooms arranged around a central staircase. To the front is an apsidal room with a columned opening to the staircase and to the rear is a bowed room with external steps. The flanking pavilions contain a bed chamber, closet and stairs and are connected by lateral wings containing a small room and passage

Scale

bar scale of 5/8 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

East front of a new Design for William Grant Esqr at Congleton in East Lothian / Plan of the Bed Chamber Story of a new Design / for William Grant Esqr at Congleton / Plan of the Principal Story of the House & Offices and wings / Bed Chamber / Closet / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dressg room / Dressg room / Bed room / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Closet / Bed Chamber / Passage / Drawg room / Passage / Breakfast / room / Principal / Stairs / Hall / Dining room / Back Stairs / Dressg room / Passage / Bed Chamber / Water / Closet with room dimensions and pencil annotations. (Verso) Grant of Congleton (and in another hand) From Edin^b. 22^nd July 1796 / nt Esqr Congleton

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including cerulean blue on laid paper (376x483)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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