[6] Design for the principal floor of a house, 1777, as executed

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/24

Purpose

[6] Design for the principal floor of a house, 1777, as executed

Aspect

Principal floor plan of a house comprising a rectangular building with bow ends to the east and west sides, a projecting porch on the north side and a porch and staircase on the south side. Rooms are arranged around a hall and staircase and include a dining room, drawing room, breakfasting room, butler’s pantry and closet. The breakfasting room is located within the east bow and has an apsidal end to form an oval-shaped room. Adjoining the porch are curved corridor links which terminate in stables with pavilions at each end containing chaise houses, a wash house and a coal house with projecting walls to contain a stable court. There is a pump in the centre of the stable court

Scale

to a scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Thomas Brown Esq^r / (in another hand) Principal Story of a new Design of a House & Offices / for Aikenhead near Glasgow / (in pencil ) of a new Design of a / Principal Story ~~Glasgow~~ near Glasgow ^ House & Offices for Aikenhead / (in pen) South / West / North / East / Dining room / Closet for Books & Cloaths[sic] / Breakfasting room / Butlers Pantry / Hall & Staircase / Drawing room / Porch / Corridor / Corridor / Coal House / Stable / Chaise House / Stable Court / Pump / Stable / Chaise House with some room dimensions / (verso) Thomas Brown Esq^r / Aikenhead / 5 / (in pencil) Cieling[sic] for Lady Derby’s room in Dairy Building

Signed and dated

6/3/1777
Adelphi / March 6^& 1777~

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (377x238)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Verso

Measured drawing for a ceiling showing a square with two segments at two ends, with a rough compass point in the centre

Watermark

J Whatman

Notes

The design on the verso is for a different scheme for Lady Derby at Knowsley Park, Lancashire.

Literature

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

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Drawing

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