[4] Alternative design for the basement of a house, 1791, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - House of the Bush, Midlothian: designs for a house and stables for Robert Trotter, 1791, executed in part (9)
    - Variant designs for a house and stables (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/87

Purpose

[4] Alternative design for the basement of a house, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Basement plan comprising a rectangular house with corner turrets, with a small range connected to the lower rear. The main house has a central room with a bow end, with a principal staircase to the rear. Rooms include a butler’s pantry, house keeper’s room, servant’s bedrooms, a strong room, and cellars for cyder, ale and wine

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Plan of the Half sunk Story of the addition to the House / at the Bush (in the hand of William Adam) Robert Trotter Esqr / Closet / Butlers / Pantry / Men Servants / room / House keepers room / Staircase / Ale, Cyder & Wine / in Casks / Wine Cellar / Strong room / Women Servts / room / Closet / Closet / (verso) no 4

Signed and dated

30/12/1791
datable to 30/12/1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (305x264)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 5
King, volume 1, 2001, pp. 394, 406
King, volume 2, 2001, p. 161
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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