Preliminary design for the garden façade of the Parsonage House (now the old rectory), c1761, executed with minor alterations (1)

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire: designs for landscape architecture, alterations to the house, and interior design for Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Baronet (created Lord Scarsdale 1761), 1759-72 (149)
    - Designs for buildings within the park, including a boat house, garden hut, garden pavilion, stables, farm offices, greenhouse, viewing tower, bridge, gateway, milestone, pheasant house, parsonage house, farm house and inn

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Preliminary design for the garden façade of the Parsonage House (now the old rectory), c1761, executed with minor alterations (1)

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The parsonage house was a pre-existing structure remodelled by Adam in accordance with this design. The house survives but was moved in 1771 by Samuel Wyatt to its present location near the north-west entrance to the park.

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Contents of Preliminary design for the garden façade of the Parsonage House (now the old rectory), c1761, executed with minor alterations (1)

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