[20] Design for a stables and offices, 1786, unexecuted

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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 35/48

Purpose

[20] Design for a stables and offices, 1786, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground plan of a D-shaped stables and office range, with a circular stable flanked by coach houses, staircases, and enclosed dung yards, with stores for wood and coals, harness rooms, a laundry and a circular wash house

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of Stable Offices for Sir Samuel Hannay Bart. / (in pencil) Dung / (in pen) Yard / Coach house / Coach house / Stable / Coach house / Coach House / (in pencil) Dung / (in pen) Yard / Coach House / Coach House / Harness room / Shed / for Wood / Shed for Coals / Laundry / maids room / Wash house / Laundry / Harness / & / Boiling room / Stable / A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H with some room dimensions / (verso) Sir Samuel Hannay / 3 Sheets of Paper with screen Elevations & Plan / Kirkdale Stables 1st Design / these Plans go in 8 into the Book / no 8

Signed and dated

1786
R^t Adam Arch.^t 1786

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and lemon yellow wash on laid paper (273x450)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

PORTAL & BRIDGES

Notes

The coloured wash in this design might indicate the proposed removal of rooms and stores for the 1787 variant (SM Adam volume 35/45) which appears to be very similar to the unwashed part of this design.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 20
King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 245
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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