[1] Design for the basement floor of a house, c.1770, as executed

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    - Queen Street, number 8 (formerly 7), Edinburgh: designs for a house for Lord Chief Baron Ord, 1770-71, executed in part, with some alterations (25)
      - Designs and finished drawings for a house and stables, executed in part, c.1770-71 (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/62

Purpose

[1] Design for the basement floor of a house, c.1770, as executed

Aspect

Ground (basement) floor plan comprising a series of rooms within a square footprint with a central rear canted bay. The central rooms appear to be vaulted. Rooms include a servants’ hall, steward's dining area, housekeeper’s room, and butler’s room. Beyond the main house is a service range or offices comprising a series of store rooms arranged around a central corridor, rooms include a scullery, pantry, and a bake house, large kitchen and staircase at the rear. At the rear end is a drying yard and large stable and coach house area, occupying a wider footprint than the house and offices. At the rear end are two staircases next to a harness room and room for boiling water

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground Story of Offices for Lord Chief Baron Ord / (in the hand of William Adam) in Queen Street Edinburgh / Plan of the Ground Story / (in another hand) Servants Hall / Wine in Casks / Stewards Dining Room / A / B / Store Room / Housekeepers Room / Butlers Room / D / Area / Area / Privy / Area / Coal Vaults / Small Beer Cellar / Privy / Area / Passage / Pantry / Larder / Larder / Scullery / Area / Bake House / Staircase / Kitchen / Drying Yard / Stable Yard / Privy / Place for Dung / Stable / Room for Boiling Water / Passage / Coach House / Coach House / Coach House / Passage / Room for Harnesses / Stable / (in another hand) The Ground in this & the opposite / side may be left undugg [sic] & if / afterwards more [_ _ _ _] Vaults / are wanted it may be taken away / & arches turned & Doors opened with / them from the Passage as the Red / Line shews with some dimensions / (verso) 2 / Lord [_ _ _ _] Room and [_ _ _ _] Room with a rough plan of a building

Signed and dated

c.1770
datable to 1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (1188x495)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 12
King, 2001, p. 123
Further literature references in scheme notes

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Drawing

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