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Design for the gallery or library, 1771, unexecuted (1)

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This room is alternately described as a gallery and a library in Adam volumes 12/82 and 50/52. The shape and scale of the room suggests that it spanned a wing at the rear of the house. Moreover, observation of French sash doors in this drawing shows that the room was located on the ground storey.


None of Adam's designs for Colebrooke are known to have been completed owing to his financial difficulties. See scheme notes.

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