[1] Design for the ground floor of a house, 1790, executed to a variant design

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  - Glencarse House, Perth and Kinross: designs for a house for Thomas Hunter Esq, 1790, executed to a variant design (8)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/105

Purpose

[1] Design for the ground floor of a house, 1790, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Ground plan comprising a central block with a projecting central bay and rear three-bay bow, with flanking enclosed yards containing privies. Rooms include male and female servants' rooms, a laundry, a room for knives and shoes and three cellars

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground story of the House & the low Yards at the East & West ends of the House / (in the hand of William Adam) for Thomas Hunter Esq^r of Glencarse / (in a different hand) Yard / 6 ½ feet lower than the / Kitchen yard / Privy / Men Ser^vts / Room / Women Ser^vts / Room / Laundry / Knives / & / Shoes / Passage / Cellar / Passage / Cellar / Closet / Cellar / Drying Yard / 6 ½ feet lower than the Brew / house yard / Privy with some room dimensions / (verso) [_ _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _] / [_ _ _ _ / _ _ _ / _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _] / 8 sheets

Signed and dated

7/9/1790
Edin^g 7 Sept / 1790 ~

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (485x296)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 15
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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