[7] Design for a gatehouse, 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)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/60

Purpose

[7] Design for a gatehouse, 1772, unexecuted

Aspect

Part plan and elevation of a castle-style gatehouse, composed of a single-bay entrance door, barred by a half-height picket fence, surmounted by a cross-shaped slit window, and set within a relieving arch, and flanked by two-storey, single-bay crenellated circular towers, with cross-shaped slit windows on the ground storey, and slit windows on the first storey, and the central entrance is surmounted by a three-bay crenellated upper storey, with slit windows, and bartizans, and a stepped gable roof, containing a single slit window

Scale

bar scale of 2 3/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

For John Role Walter Esqe in Devonshire (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

April 1772
Adelphi April / 10t. 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen within a single ruled border on laid paper (381 x 509)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

6 / Number 11 (in red pen) / John Role Walter Esqr

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Notes

This castle-style gatehouse was not executed. See scheme notes.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 3
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 243
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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