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[1] Preliminary design for a castellated house, 1783, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 10/77
Purpose
[1] Preliminary design for a castellated house, 1783, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough plan and garden front elevation of a two-storey, crenellated house, with a three-bay, bow-fronted central block, with a conical roof, and three-storey corner turrets, flanked by three-bay links, with pitched roofs, and three-bay pavilions, one with a pyramidal roof, with two-storey corner turrets, and with Palladian windows within relieving arches on the ground floor
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Kitchen / Pantry / Scullery / Ks Keepers rm / Study / Hall / Great Room / Dining Room and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1783
datable to 1783
Medium and dimensions
Pencil in sugar paper (244 x 201)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Rowan, 1985, p. 122
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 166
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 166
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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