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[17] Design for the ground floor of the kitchen offices, c.1789, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 36/75
Purpose
[17] Design for the ground floor of the kitchen offices, c.1789, unexecuted
Aspect
Ground plan of an arcaded circular range of kitchen offices adjoining a castle, with a kitchen block and wash house with an adjoining drying yard, and on the opposite side of the kitchen is a pavilion with a central gateway, with an enclosed fowl yard and kitchen court with stores. Rooms include stores for bottles, knives, charcoal, wood, coals, beer and ale, and shoes as well as a bake house, office, clerk’s room, servant’s room, dairy, pantry, hen house, larders and scullery
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 an inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Part of the body of the Castle / Design of a Court of Offices proposed to join at the N. E corner of Findlater Castle to be sufficiently sunk not to interupt the / prospect from the one pair Story of the Castle / Albemarle Street / C[_ _ _] Shoes / Knives / Bottles / Bottles / Charcoal / Drying Yard / Laundry above / Wash house / Closet / Pantry / Storeroom / Fowl Yard / Coals / Wood / Privy / Door / Hen house / Beer & Ale / Sh[_ _ _] / Closet / Office / Clerks / room / Gateway / Bake / House / Bread / room / Oven / Servants / room / Scullery / Dairy / Larder / Kitchen / Court / Coals / Ward / Privy / Day Larder / Scullery / Kitchen (all underwritten in pencil) / (verso) no 3
Signed and dated
- c.1789
datable to c.1789
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (483x290)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson
Watermark
J WHATMAN
Level
Drawing
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