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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/82

Purpose

[8] Design for the house and offices, 1776, unexecuted

Aspect

Longitudinal section of a house and offices showing a two-and-a-half-storey, five-bay central block with a hipped roof and four chimneystacks, flanked by two-storey, three-bay links, leading to two-storey, one-bay pavilions, all above stepped foundations and a half-sunk basement which includes barrel-vaulting beneath the central block and links, and at its terminus an office court with projecting bow, and the section of the central block depicts a screened hall and full-turn stair with landings, and the eastern pavilion contains a one-and-a-half-storey kitchen

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/10 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through the House and Offices from A to B / for Alexander Spiers Esqr near Glasgow (in the hand of William Adam) with some measurements included

Signed and dated

  • 1776
    datable to 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (500 x 898)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam, addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

4

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 20
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 395
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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