[14] Alternative design for the south elevation of a house, 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 31/68

Purpose

[14] Alternative design for the south elevation of a house, 1790, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, five-bay house with a hipped roof, with flanking single-storey links terminating in two-storey pavilions with pyramidal roofs. The main house has a central portico with Tuscan columns supporting a balustraded balcony to the first floor. The first floor is adorned with giant pilasters with volute capitals supporting a moulded entablature with enclosed rosettes. The pavilions have an entrance within a relieving arch, and a moulded cornice above the ground floor with crudely drawn sphinx and griffons on pedestals with plaques. There are a mixture of square-headed and tripartite windows in plain surrounds and relieving arches

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

South front of a new Design for Ballaville House, with covered passages & wings / For James Macpherson Esq.^r / B with some dimensions / (verso) 1

Signed and dated

6/3/1790
Albemarle Street / 6. March 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (466x288)

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.

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