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Reference number

SM 78/6/10

Purpose

[29] Design (office copy) for the east office court at Anniston House as executed, 1787

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a courtyard of offices attached to the east end of country house. A false colonnade screens a range of service stores connecting to a single-storey range containing a laundry and brewhouse. Adjoining the house to the north of the court is a pantry and scullery. The Courtyard is enclosed by a screen wall and gate to the north side

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Drawing of Offices, John Rait Esqr Anniston – J. Playfair Archt Copy / South Elevation of Offices at East End, labelled: Laundry, Wood Entablature, Wood Columns, Stone plinth, Extends 71 feet 2 Inches with dimensions given / Plan of Offices East End of House, labelled: Gateway, Pantry, Scullery, Pebble paving, Gravel, Pebble paving, Plain paving, Pump, Flatt paving, Brewhouse, 3 feet down, 1 foot down, Laundry, Mangle, window, Women, Gentlemen, Men, Coals – N.B. leave a flue here for a Bake house, Shoes and Knives, window, Dairy, Extends 21”2, Extends 47 feet

Signed and dated

  • May 1787
    May 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen on wove paper (517x661)

Hand

Playfair, James (1755--1794) - Art collections

Level

Drawing

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