[3] Design for the house, 1762, unexecuted

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  - Hatch House (now Mersham-le-Hatch), Mersham, Kent: executed and unexecuted designs for the house and interior for Sir Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham, 6th Baronet, and Sir Edward Knatchbull, 7th Baronet, 1762-66 (34)
    - Preliminary designs and designs for the house, 1762, unexecuted (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/98

Purpose

[3] Design for the house, 1762, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the basement (half sunk) storey of a five- by nine-bay house, with the foundations to an external staircase on the storey above, and with a central five-bay bow on the garden front, and an additional range of vaults running along the left-hand side of the house

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/10 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Hatch in Kent the Seat of Sir Wyndham Knatchbull 1st Design (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Plan of the Ground or / half Sunk Storey / Servts Necessy / Wood Vault / Larder / Coal Vault / Area / Pantry / Plate / Passage lighted by a Sash Door / Butlers Bed Room / Beer Cellar / Steward Room / Wine Cellar / Servants Hall / Bath / Bath / Back Stairs / House Keepers Bed Room / Kitchen / Scullery / Charter Room / Store Room / Broom Room / Still Room and measurements given

Signed and dated

1762
datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (462 x 473)

Hand

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

Verso

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 17
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 126
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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