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Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/119

Purpose

[1] Design for the ground floor of a house, ND, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground plan of a house comprising a rectangular building with a central three-bay bow, and an adjoining service range at one end. Rooms include a kitchen, servants' hall, butler’s room, strong room and multiple sculleries, larders and store rooms
  • image SM Adam volume 42/119

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Ground Story ~ / (in the hand of William Adam) of a house for William Morehead Esqr / (in a different hand) Necessy. / Passage / Room for / Cleaning Shoes / &c. / Scullery to Dairy / Dairy / Coals / Wood / Court / Covered Passage / Passage / Larder / Larder / Scullery / Kitchen / Wine / in Binns / Wine in Casks / Servants Hall / Pantry / Butlers room / Passage / Strong room / Housekeepers room / Store room with room dimensions

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (512x604)

Watermark

IVG surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 17
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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