[2] Design for a house, 1772, unexecuted

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  - Bicton House, East Budleigh, Devon: unexecuted designs for a house and a gatehouse for John Rolle Walter, 1772 (7)
    - Preliminary design and designs for a house, 1772, unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/58

Purpose

[2] Design for a house, 1772, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the principal (first) storey of a house as Adam volume 43/57, but with the central three bays on the principal no longer projecting, but behind a portico of engaged columns, and the central block contains reception rooms, and the links to either side are three bays on the principal front, and have no windows on the garden front, and the wings to either side largely contain bedrooms

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Principal Story of a House and Offices. for John Role Walter Esqr. / at Bicton in Devonshire / Room for Flour &c. / Brew house continued / Bed room / Bed room / Bed room / Bed room / Bed room / Lobby / Bed room / Bed room / Bed room / Dining room / Anti Room / Drawing Room / Hay Loft / Bed room / Bed room / Bed room / Hay Loft and some measurements given

Signed and dated

March 1772
Adelphi March 27th. 1772.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (752 x 520)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Verso

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 3
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 122
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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