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Reference number

SM Adam volume 30/133

Purpose

[1] Finished drawing for the kitchen offices, 1764

Aspect

Plan of a kitchen court, with the house on one side, a perimeter wall along the front, a connecting link corridor along the rear side containing various store rooms, and on the far side from the house are two separate long thin pavilions, and with pencil annotations showing the two pavilions joined together as a single five-bay building

Scale

bar scale of 1 2/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground Story of the New Designed Offices for the Grange the Seat of the / Right Honble Lord Chancellor Henley (the Seat of the / Right Honble Lord Chancellor Henley in the hand of William Adam) / Pantry or Larder / and a feint pencil inscription / Coals (in pencil) / Place for Fowls / Wood (in pencil) / Wood (in pencil) / Necessary / Necessary / Passage / Court / Wash House (in pencil) / Bake House / Staircase / Room for Pab[ _ _ ] (in pencil) / Brew house / Wash House (in pencil) / Wood house / Well house / Coal house and measurements given (verso) 4

Signed and dated

  • 1764
    Robt Adam Architect 1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (486 x 355)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 15
Geddes, 1986, p. 206
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 218
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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