[10] Finished drawing for the house, 1762, as executed

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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)
    - Alternative preliminary design, and finished drawings and a record drawing for the house, 1762, as executed (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/105

Purpose

[10] Finished drawing for the house, 1762, as executed

Aspect

Plan of the ground storey of a four- and five- by seven-bay central block, with a central three-bay bow on the garden front, and with subterranean vaults in front, and flanked by three-bay links, and three- by three-bay pavilions, and beyond the left-hand pavilion are two yards

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground Story / of a house for Sir Windham Knatchbull in Kent (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Yard for Feeding Poultry / Drying Yard / Wash House / Kitchen / Scullery / Passage / Larder / Larder / Plate Room / Pantry / Butlers Room / Servants Hall / Coal Vault / Wood Vault / Stewards Room / Wine Cellar / Powderg Room / Beer Cellar / Gun Room / Still Room / House Keepers Room / Pantry / Wood Vault / Coal Vault / Servts Necessary / Passage / Scullery / Dairy / Evidence Room / Charter Room and measurements given

Signed and dated

1762
datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen, red pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (998 x 457)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, additions to inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 17
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 113
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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