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  • image SM Adam volume 21/233

Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/233

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for the house, 1762, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan of the ground (half sunk) storey of a five- by nine-bay house, containing domestic rooms, and with additional storage rooms to one side, and with a central five-bay bow in the garden front

Scale

to a rough scale

Inscribed

Ground / or half sunk Story / Stewards Room / Servants Hall / Beer Cellar / Wine Cellar / Butlers bed Room / Pantry / Plate / passage lighted by sash door / House Keepers Bed Room / Back Stairs / Great Stairs / Bath / Bath / Still Room / Store room / Charter Room / Scullery / Kitchen / Servts Necessary / Wood Vault / Larder / Coal Vault and measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1762
    datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (284 x 191)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

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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