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Reference number

SM Adam volume 46/157

Purpose

[1] Design for a cottage, ND

Aspect

Elevation of a single storey, three-bay building with a central, semi-circular-headed entrance, flanked by latticed windows and set behind a Tuscan colonnaded screen. The flanking bays are projecting and contain three-quarter height, latticed windows and the roof line is ornamented with a band on dentils. To the left-hand side of the principal building there is a two-bay wing, which consists of a single-storey link bay with a tripartite three-quarter height, latticed window and a one-and-a-half-storey projecting bay with a pitched roof. The projecting bay contains a three-quarter-height latticed window at the ground storey level. Above this there is a half-height window set within a gable

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Unknown (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / 66th (pencil)

Signed and dated

  • ND
    ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (375x176)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand

Level

Drawing

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