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[2] Preliminary design for the rear front of a house, ND, execution status unknown
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 9/117
Purpose
[2] Preliminary design for the rear front of a house, ND, execution status unknown
Aspect
Rough elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, three-bay crenelated cottage with a hipped roof. The central bay contains a large lancet window flanked by smaller lancet windows on the ground floor and square-headed windows on the first floor, each with hood mouldings. There is a central single-storey, single-bay, crenelated tower containing an arched window. All the windows appear to have plate tracery. Further adornments include a machicolated cornice, crenelations and bartizans with pepper-pot roofs
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
21 (in pen)
Signed and dated
- ND
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (70x81)
Hand
Possibly
James Adam
James Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 29
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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