[20] Design for the east gate on St Neot's Road (now the B645), executed with minor alterations, 1764

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire: designs for the house and park for George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, 1763-71 (22)
    - Designs for the stables, domestic offices, orangery and menagerie, gatehouses, and dairy (18)
      - Design for the east gate on St Neot's Road (now the B645), executed with minor alterations, 1764 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 51/89

Purpose

[20] Design for the east gate on St Neot's Road (now the B645), executed with minor alterations, 1764

Aspect

Elevation of a tripartite gateway, of four rusticated piers, with pyramidal tops. Between the central piers are ornamental, ironwork gates, and between each of the end piers is a wall punctuated by a door

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Another Design for Kimbolton Castle and dimensions given

Signed and dated

1764
datable to 1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (494 x 776)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 20
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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