[5] Alternative preliminary design for a cottage, unexecuted, October 1778

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Weald Hall, Brentwood, South Weald, Essex: designs for alterations to the house, a cottage, dog kennels, and interior decoration for Thomas and Christopher Tower, 1778-1779 (21)
    - Designs for a cottage, dog kennels, and alterations to the house (7)
      - Alternative preliminary designs for a cottage, unexecuted, October 1778 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/114

Purpose

[5] Alternative preliminary design for a cottage, unexecuted, October 1778

Aspect

Rough plans and elevation of a five-bay building with a pitched roof and central pediment similar to that in Adam volume 4/58. A large arched window set in an arched recess, free-standing tree-trunk columns, and a bowed rear façade. One of the two plans is an alternative drawn in pencil

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Plan & Elevation of a Thatched Hutt / for Thomas Towers Esqr / at Weald Hall Essex

Signed and dated

October 1778
R.A. Oct 23d 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (207 x 310)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 30
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 259
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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