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Reference number

SM Adam volume 2/139

Purpose

Design for a cottage, ND

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, five-bay building with a pyramidal, thatched roof supporting chimneys. At the ground-storey level there is a central, stepped entrance set within a rustic, Doric portico, with an open, broken pediment. The entrance is flanked by three-quarter-height, leaded windows, and there is a half-height, leaded window set within the tympanum. At the second-storey level there are quarter-height, tripartite windows, with a further central window set under an eave. The central block of the building is flanked by single-bay wings, with cross-shaped windows and friezes of rosettes(?)

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • ND
    ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including sepia and olive green (270x222)

Hand

Possibly Adam, Robert (1728--1792), architect
Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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