[2] Design for the ground floor of a house, 1787, executed in part

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  - Glasserton House, Dumfries and Galloway: designs for a house for Keith Stewart, 1787, executed in part (10)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/69

Purpose

[2] Design for the ground floor of a house, 1787, executed in part

Aspect

Flyer closed: Basement (ground) floor plan comprising a series of rooms with a service wing at one end. The main house comprises a portico leading onto a large hall with a columned opening onto to an apsidal passage and circular room to the rear. Flanking these central rooms are a number of small and large rooms including a servants' hall, butler’s bedroom and pantry, housekeeper’s room and kitchen. The service wing has two bow bays and contains a series of storage rooms including a dry and wet larder, and storerooms for wood, coal, shoes and boots and powdering wigs Flyer open: alternative/variant portico plan for the entrance to the building showing a full-width set of steps to the front

Scale

bar scale of 1 ¼ inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

North / Plan of the Basement Story of Glasserton House (and in the hand of William Adam) for Admiral Keith Stewart / (in another hand) Butlers Bedroom / Butlers Pantry / Mr Stewarts room / Water / Closet / Powdering room / Closet / Servants Hall / Principal Stair / Gun room / Garden Parlor / or / Billiard room / Passage / Hall / Covered Porch / for carriages / Back stairs / Housekeepers room / area / Oven / Pastry / Passage / Store room / Women Servants room / Scullery / Kitchen / Shoes & Boots / Powdering wigs / Wood / Coals / Entry to Kitchen Offices / Dry Larder / Wet Larder / Knives / Coal / Bottle / rack / Bottle / rack / East and some room dimensions. (Verso) Admiral Keith Stewart / (in a different hand) number 19 / (in pencil) [_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _] walls [_ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _] & provided / Bricks and a pencil drawing

Signed and dated

13/11/1787
Albemarle Street / 13^th Nov^r 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink coloured wash on laid paper (464x294)

Hand

possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 15
King, 2001, Vol. 1, pp. 106, 136
Further literature references in scheme notes

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