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

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Kirkdale House, Galloway: variant designs for a house, stables, offices, farm range, brewhouse, bridge and cottage for Sir Samuel Hannay, 3rd Baronet, 1786-88, executed in part (43)
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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 / Dress^g / 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.

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Drawing

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