[1] Preliminary design for the house, 1762, partly executed with alterations

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  - Witham Park, Frome, Somerset: designs for the house for Alderman William Beckford, partly executed with alterations, 1762-70 (10)
    - Preliminary designs, finished drawings and a record drawing for the house, 1762, partly executed with alterations (10)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/7/219

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for the house, 1762, partly executed with alterations

Aspect

Rough plan of a house with a five-by-four-bay central block, with a loggia across the central three bays on the principal front, with a pair of curved external stairs attached, and with these three bays recessed, and screened by two columns, and flanked in the end bays by tripartite windows, and with a central three-bay canted bow on the garden front. The central block is flanked by four-bay links, with a portico across the principal and garden fronts, and three-bay pavilions containing domestic offices

Scale

to a rough scale

Inscribed

Sketch for William Beckford Esqr (in pencil) / (and in pen and underwritten in pencil) Wash Ho / Brew house / Drawing room / Dining room / Dressing Room / Hall / Parlour / Larder / Scullery / Kitchen and some measurements given in pen and pencil, and some calculations in pencil

Signed and dated

1762
datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (318 x 195)

Hand

Robert Adam

Verso

Rough pencil-drawn plans for another house

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 31
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 134
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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