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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/37

Purpose

[1] Design for the ground floor of a house, 1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground (basement) floor plan of a house with flanking links terminating in pavilions, with adjoining offices. The main house has vaults below external perron staircases to the front and rear, and there is a staircase in the centre of the house, as well as in the pavilions and external lightwells to the front of the house. There is a large kitchen and scullery in one pavilion, and in the other is a bath house with a warm and cold bath flanking a bedroom and dressing room. The adjoining offices comprise a central yard flanked by stores on each side

Scale

bar scale of 5/8 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground Story / Wood / Knives / Coals / Kitchen / Scullery / Larder / Larder / Cooks / Pantry / Butlers Pantry / Housekeepers / room / Store room / Bedroom / Strong / room / Bottles / Beer Cellar / Bottles / Servants Hall / Passage / Wine / Cellar / Stewards room / Valets room / Ale & Beer cellar / Ladys / maids / room / Cold Bath / Bed / room / Dressg / room / Warm Bath / Shoes & Boots / Coals / Powdering room / Wood with some room dimensions

Signed and dated

  • 1787
    datable to 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (529x236)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 20
King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 127
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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