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Preliminary designs and designs for the fishing room and boat house, 1769-70, executed (8)

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Although this boat house design was not executed until 1770-72 the location had been decided as early as 1764, being an ornament to the approach between the north lodge and the house. The water at Kedleston - and here in the cold bath - is sulphurous, and for this reason Scarsdale established a small spa elsewhere in the park, and built an inn for those who came to take the waters (Adam volumes 9/231 and 40/58). This structure was, however, for private use. According to Musson, eighteenth-century boathouses were not merely practical, but also to function as aesthetically pleasing eye catchers within the landscape. He credits this design at Kedleston as being 'the most distinguishable boathouse of this type'.

There are corresponding drawings for the plan of the cold bath, and the north front of the boat house in the Kedleston collection.

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