[5] Finished drawing for a house and stable court, 1791, executed in part

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  - 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 35/92

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for a house and stable court, 1791, executed in part

Aspect

Principal floor plan of a house with adjoining range and stable court. The house comprises a central circular room flanked by two large rooms with corner turrets, with a large staircase to the rear. Adjoining the staircase is an apsidal lobby leading to an oval-shaped hall which forms a curved external wall. Extending from the rear of the hall and lobby is a service range comprising a central corridor with flanking rooms including a kitchen, study and storeroom. The service range continues northwards in two parts, creating an internal rectangular courtyard. The stables comprise an L-shaped building adjoining the service range at the north end, with boundary walls to the south enclosing a large square courtyard. Rooms include coach houses, stables, a cow house and poultry house

Scale

bar scale of ¾ of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Principal of the House & Offices at the Bush (and in the hand of William Adam) for Robert Trotter Esqr / Poultry House / Slaughter / House / Sick / Horse / Common Stables / Coach / Horse / Coach Horse Stable / Passage / Feeding Fouls / Ashes / Dairy / Coals / Maid / Servts / Gardener / Privy / Boots & / Shoes &c / Knives / Servts / Dressg room / Pantry / Kitchen / Lobby / Hall / Drawing room / Saloon or / Breakfast room / Eating room / Study / Storeroom / Pantry / Passage / Servts Hall / Scullery / Larder / Larder / Small Beer / Cellar / Scullery to Dairy / Cow house / Tool House / Sho & for [_ _ _ _ _ _ _] / wash house / Linnen / Closet / Laundry / N. B. The Buildings between the [_ _ _ _ _ _ _] are Old, all the rest new / (verso) No 16 / Robert Trotter Esqr at the Bush / no 9 / no. 9 these plans [_ _ _ _] 16 into the Back

Signed and dated

2/9/1791
Edin^g 2^nd Sept^r 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper within a ruled border (597x505)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

W surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 5
King, volume 1, 2001, pp. 394, 406
King, volume 2, 2001, pp. 161, 216, 244
Further literary references in scheme notes

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