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Reference number
SM Adam volume 54/7/115
Purpose
Preliminary design for a cottage, ND
Aspect
Above- Plan of a three-by-three-bay building with a central entrance, set behind a colonnaded screen. Beyond this there is a central dining room and to the rear of the building there is a drawing room with a canted bay window. The central rooms are flanked by staircases. Beyond the central block there are link bays and additional blocks
Below- Elevation of a single-storey, three-bay building, with a central entrance flanked by windows and set behind a Doric colonnaded screen. The central bay is flanked by projecting bays with half-height, latticed windows. Beyond the principal building there are single-storey link blocks containing gabled, latticed windows. These link to single-storey, single-bay pavilions, with thatched roofs supporting belvederes containing clocks and bearing weather vanes
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Din.g Room (pencil) / Draw.g Room (pencil) / faint pencil inscription
Signed and dated
- ND
ND
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (220x143)
Hand
Probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792), architect
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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