[12] Alternative design for the principal floor of a house, c.1790, executed to a variant design

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  - Balavil House (formerly Balaville), Highlands: designs for additions to a house for James Macpherson, 1790, executed to a variant design (14)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/70

Purpose

[12] Alternative design for the principal floor of a house, c.1790, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Principal (first) floor plan of a rectangular house with a series of bedchambers arranged around a central passage, with a drawing room dining room, principal stair and back stair. Flanking the house are the roofs of links terminating on the first floor of the pavilions containing servants’ bedrooms

Scale

to a scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the principal Story of a new Design for Ballaville House & Offices / for James Macpherson Esqr. / B / Dining room / Drawing room / Bed Chamber / Back Stair / Principal Stair / Bed Cham^r / Bed Cham^r / Bed Cham^r / Passage / Passage / Serv^ts. Bed / room / Servants Bedroom / Servants / Bedroom / Servants Bedroom / Servants / Bedroom / Bedroom / (in pencil) first floor 14 feet high with some room dimensions and calculations / (verso) 3

Signed and dated

6/3/1790
Albemarle Street / 6 March 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (520x308)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J WHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 30
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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