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Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/76

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for a castellated house, 1783, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of the principal front of a crenellated house, of two storeys set over a half-sunk basement, with a three-bay, bow-fronted central block, with a conical roof, flanked by three-bay links, with pitched roofs, and three-bay pavilions, with crow-step pyramidal roofs, and with one-and-a-half-storey projecting bows on each side

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1783
    datable to 1783

Medium and dimensions

Pencil in sugar paper (254 x 137)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Rowan, 1985, p. 122
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 166
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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