[17] Design for a tea pavilion, 1763-65, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire: designs for the house and park, for Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1763-66 (28)
    - Designs for buildings in the park
      - Designs and finished drawings for a tea pavilion, 1763-65, as executed (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 32/46

Purpose

[17] Design for a tea pavilion, 1763-65, as executed

Aspect

Ground plan and elevation of a one-and-a-half-storey ornamental cottage, with an octagonal central block, with a pitched and conical roof supported by tree trunk columns, containing a chimneypiece, and two segmental closets, and with windows surmounted by Diocletian windows. The central block is flanked by one-bay link corridors, with pitched roofs, one of which contains a staircase, and one-bay pavilions with pitched roofs, and Diocletian windows in the upper register, and each containing a chimneypiece, and with a tripartite window on the side elevation

Scale

bar scale of 2 1/3 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Cottage for Sir Laurence Dundas (in the hand of William Adam) / (Porters Lodge) (in pencil in the hand of Arthur Bolton) and some measurements given in pen and pencil, and with some rough pencil calculations

Signed and dated

1763-1765
datable to 1763-65

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (532 x 372)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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