[5] Design for the ground and garret floor of a house, c.1777, as executed

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  - Langside or Aikenhead House, Glasgow: designs for a house and stable offices for Thomas Brown, 1777, as executed (10)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/23

Purpose

[5] Design for the ground and garret floor of a house, c.1777, as executed

Aspect

Ground and garret plans of a house. The ground floor comprises a T-shaped building with bow ends to the sides of the house and a larder below a porch and staircase. Rooms are arranged around a central staircase and include a servants' hall, kitchen, laundry, scullery, cellars, and milk house. The garret floor has a simpler rectangular planform with a series of rooms, two with chimneypieces, and a staircase

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground Story / (and in the hand of William Adam) of Aikenhead House Thos Brown Esq^r / (in another hand) Larder / Kitchen / Scullery / Laundry / Press / Bed / Press / Bed / Beer Cellar / Wine / Cellar / Milk House / Servants Hall / Pantry / Press / Bed / Press / Bed / Area / Area / Area / Area / Garret Storey / (and in the hand of William Adam) of Ackinhead[sic] House / (in another hand) Lumber Garrett / Servants room / Lumber room / Front room / Servants room / Room for front with some room dimensions / (verso) (in pencil) Thomas Brown Esq^r / Akenhead[sic] near Glasgow

Signed and dated

c.1777
datable to c.1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (237x502)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

J Whatman

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 1
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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