[6] Design for the principal elevation of a house, 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)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/84

Purpose

[6] Design for the principal elevation of a house, 1791, executed in part

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, ten-bay house over a half-sunk basement, with a hipped roof and a central round tower with a conical roof. There is a balustraded entrance stair linking to a continuous balustrade across the principal (first) floor. The entrance is set within a recessed arch with heraldry above. The second floor also had a continuous balustrade, along with a machicollated cornice, crenelations, corner pepper-pot turrets and several weather vanes. There are a mixture of rectangular windows in plain surrounds, rectangular windows with hood mouldings, and oculi

Scale

bar scale of ¾ of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Garden front for the House at the Bush / (and in the hand of William Adam) Robert Trotter Esqr / (in another hand, in pencil) Robert Trotter / Right copy / (verso) Mr Trotters copy / Mr Trotters copies correct / (in another hand ) 4 Elevations 4 Ground Plans 1 Sections / from no 11 / no 1 / no 1

Signed and dated

30/12/1791
Edin^g 30^th Dec / ~~Edin^r 2 Sept~~ / 1791 –

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (557x385)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Notes

Only the two-storey central bow executed, having been added to the existing elevation of an earlier building.

Literature

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

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