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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/64

Purpose

[1] Design for the basement of a castellated house, 1790, unexecuted

Aspect

Basement (ground) plan comprising a central rectangular range with flanking links terminating in U-shaped blocks with walls enclosing internal courtyards. Principal rooms include a servants' hall, butler’s room and pantry, steward’s room and office, a kitchen, stables and several coach houses

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Basement Story of Lord Kinnairds House – / Privy / Coals / Wood / Drying Yard / Wood / Coals / Privy / Bottle / rack / Wash house / Linen / Closet / Kitchen Court / Feeding / Fowls / Wet / Larder / Dry Larder / Passage / Pantry / Confectionary / Passage / Scullery / Kitchen / Knives / Plate / Butlers Pantry / Butler / Back / Stairs / Wine / in / Bottles / H[_ _ _ _ _ _] / Ale & / Cyder / Wine in / Cask / Small / Beer / Passage / Store / room / House Keeper / Servants Hall / Stewards room / Stewards / Office / Bed / room / W[_ _ _ _ _] / Closet / Saddles / Harness / Sick / Horses / Stable for / Strangers / Horses / Coach house / Coach house / Coach house / Stable / Stable Court / Dung / Privy / Dung / Dung / Privy / Dung with some room dimensions

Signed and dated

  • 1790
    Robt Adam Archt. 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (514x340)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Robert Adam

Watermark

W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 9
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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