[3] Design for a cottage, 1780, unexecuted

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  - Samuel Smith: unexecuted designs for alterations and additions to a house, 1780-81 (11)
    - Designs for a 50-foot wide rustic cottage, 1780, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 46/180

Purpose

[3] Design for a cottage, 1780, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the ground storey of a three-bay cottage, with a central tripartite door behind a single-bay portico; behind which is a hall and half-turn staircase, flanked by apsidal rooms forming three-bay bows on the side elevations, and with two-light windows at the front. Behind this front portion of the house is a narrower area with small rooms on each side of the staircase; and beyond is an older three-bay by two-bay rectangular block – delineated in pink – with small single-bay service pavilions on each far corner

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Cottage for Samuel Smith Esqr (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Beer Cellar / Scullery / Dairy / Kitchen / Passage / Butlers room / Staircase / Servants Hall / Parlor / Hall / Book room / The Red paint is the present Cottage (underwritten in pencil) and measurements given in pen and pencil

Signed and dated

11/12/1780
Decr 11t / 1780

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (468 x 429)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 57
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 260
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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