[31] Design for a group of buildings, 1787, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - 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)
    - Variant designs for stables and offices, 1786-87, unexecuted (14)
      - Variant designs for a stables and offices, 1787, unexecuted (10)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/42

Purpose

[31] Design for a group of buildings, 1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a group of offices with an adjoining single-storey wall. At one end is a three-storey drum tower, with a single-storey arched porch. At the other end is the flank elevation of the gatehouse, with a central tower and spire with pedimented openings and a weathervane. Across the elevation are square-headed windows, arched windows and crosses, as well as machicolated cornices, corbelled bartizans, and string coursing

Scale

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

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) Offices of Sir Samuel Hannay Bart at Kirkdale in Galloway

Signed and dated

c.1787
datable to c.1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (484x128)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

PORTAL & BRIDGES

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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