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[14] Design for a ground plan of a circular stable range, 1789, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 36/72
Purpose
[14] Design for a ground plan of a circular stable range, 1789, unexecuted
Aspect
Ground plan of a circular stable range with a central carriage ring with a gallery and spire. The stable range has four gateways flanked by stairs and four pavilions containing a brewhouse, coach houses, and bedrooms, connected by stables and stores for items including corn, hay and straw. There are additional elevations drawing in pencil, including a detail of a capital
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 an inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design of a Circular Court of Stable Offices for Findlater Castle / Gateway / Smith / shop / Fa[_ _ _]y / Scullery / to / Brewhouse / Brewhouse / Beer [_ _ _ _] / & [_ _ _] / Storeroom / Grainary / Harness / Gateway / Harness / Coach House / stable / Coach House / Coach House / Saddle horse / Stable / Boiling / room / A / Gateway / Saddle room above A. B. / Boiling / room / B / Saddle / Horse / Stable / Coach House / Coach House / Coach House / Stable / Harness / Gateway / Saddles / Strangers Horses / Sick / Horses / Bedroom / Bedroom / Groom / Farriers / Straw / Hay / Corn (all underwritten in pencil) / Court / Gallery above / the Ride / 66 d.r / (verso) no 2 / no 2 / These Plans go 15th into the Book / Ground Plan of Offices
Signed and dated
- 14/8/1789
Albemarle Street / 14.h August 1789
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (535x362)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson
Watermark
J WHATMAN
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 13
King, 2001, p. 244
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, p. 244
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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