[11] Design for a D-shaped house, 1779, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Great Saxham House, Suffolk: designs for alterations, rebuilding and decorating for Hutchinson Mure, 1775-9 (32)
    - Designs for a new house following the fire, 1779
      - Preliminary designs, designs, and finished drawings for a D-shaped house, 1779, unexecuted (9)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 34/27

Purpose

[11] Design for a D-shaped house, 1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a D-shaped house, with an eleven-bay principal front, and a thirteen-bay curved garden front. On the principal front the central three bays are slightly projecting, and behind a portico of engaged columns, and the end bays are projecting, and articulated by pilasters. The first, fifth, ninth, and thirteenth bays on the curved front are projecting, and contain tripartite windows, and between are three bays, with a central tripartite window, each behind a screen of two columns, The house has a central oval staircase, and a smaller oval back stair to one side, and contains reception rooms, dressing rooms, and a bedroom

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Principal Story of Saxham House / the Seat of Hutchinson Mure Esqr (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Mr Mure's Dressing room / Water Closet / Breakfast Room / Closet / Eating Room / Anti room / Drawing Room / Water Closet / Lady's Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Servants room / Powdering room / Gentlemans Dressing room / Hall / Library and measurements given

Signed and dated

1779
datable to 1779 Adel[phi cropped] / 3d A [gust cropped]

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink and yellow wash on laid paper (604 x 505)

Hand

Adam office hand, additions to inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

No / 4 (on a small separate affixed sheet) / These Plans should go with the Book

Notes

The inscription on the verso: These Plans should go with the Book probably refers to Robert and James Adam's proposed publication Designs for Castles and Country Villas. However, this project never came to fruition.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 15
Rowan, 1985, p. 48
King, 2001, Volume II, p.126
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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