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[1] Design for a house and offices, 1779, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 37/102
Purpose
[1] Design for a house and offices, 1779, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of the principal (ground) storey of a house and kitchen offices. The house is composed of a rectangular seven- by five- or six-bay block, with square, single-bay corner towers, and the central three bays on the principal front slightly projecting and with a square, single-bay porch, and containing a central oval staircase, reception rooms, domestic rooms and service rooms. At the rear of the house is a link corridor connecting to the kitchen offices, which are octagonal, with a rectangular, single-bay corner tower on every other front, and with tripartite windows in between, and containing a kitchen and service rooms. There are also rough and measured pencil-drawn plans for the house and offices on the sheet, as well as a rough pencil-drawn three-storey elevation of the offices in the top left-hand corner
Scale
bar scale of ¾ inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the Principal Story for Col. St. Paul / Dressing room / Library / Hall / Eating room / Buffet room / Housekeepers room / Butlers Pantry / Water Closet / Bed / Bed / Inner room / Staircase / Drawing room / Store room / China Closet Larder / Larder / Servants Hall / Pantry / Cloaths / Scullery / Kitchen / Pantry and measurements given / (and in pencil) Scullery / Kitchen / Pantry / Larder / Serts Hall / Cloaths (verso) Number 21 / Colonel St Paul
Signed and dated
- 23/04/1779
Adelphi / 23d. April 1779
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (529 x 376)
Hand
Adam office hand, probably Robert Adam
Watermark
JWHATMAN
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 57
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 165, 246
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 165, 246
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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