[2] Design for the basement of a building, c.1791-92, as executed

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  - Glasgow Royal Infirmary: designs for an infirmary, c.1791-94, executed in part (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/10

Purpose

[2] Design for the basement of a building, c.1791-92, as executed

Aspect

Ground (basement) floor plan comprising a central polygonal range with flanking links terminating in pavilions with staircases, with an outer wall at each end with steps and vaults. The central range comprises a lobby, staircase, housekeeper’s room, storeroom, apothecary shop and porter’s room. The links contain a central corridor with cells and service rooms including a kitchen, scullery, larder, hot and cold baths and bedrooms

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground Story for the Infirmary at Glasgow / North / East / South / West / Pantry / Scullery / Privy / Larder / Larder / Kitchen / Scullions / room / Cooks room / Scullions room / House Serv^t / Porters / room / Lobby / Apothecarys / Shop / House Keepers room / Store room / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Dirty Linnen[sic] / Cell Keeper / Men Serv^t/ Bath keeper / Heating / room / Hot Bath / Bedroom / Dress^g. room / Cold Bath with some dimensions and calculations / (verso) no 2 / no 2

Signed and dated

c.1791-92
datable to c.1791-92

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink wash on laid paper (639x534)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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