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Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/110

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for a cottage, 1777

Aspect

Rough plan and elevation of a small rectangular building, divided into two rooms, with a porch on the principal front and a projecting bay on the rear front containing a spiral staircase. The elevation of the principal front is of one storey and three bays, a tiled pyramidal roof with a central chimney-stack, and a central semicircular arched entrance porch beneath a conventional pediment that breaks-up into the roof

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Duke of Bolton and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • c1777
    datable to c1777

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (186 x 196)

Hand

James Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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