[7] Design for the service offices, c1760-63, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Compton Verney, Warwickshire: executed designs for alterations and interior decoration to the house, and an unexecuted design for the brewhouse, for the 14th Lord Willoughby de Broke, 1760-63 (10)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/22

Purpose

[7] Design for the service offices, c1760-63, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan, elevation and sections of a single-storey, five-bay building with a hipped roof, a central semicircular-arched entrance, with rooms for domestic services on the ground floor, and a half-sunk basement beneath the right-hand (west) end

Scale

bar scale of 1 8/10 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation of the Brewhouse Office for Compton House in Warwickshire / the Seat of Lord Willoughby de Broke (in the hand of William Adam) / Extends 58 feet / Plan of the Brewhouse / Upper Back / Mash Tub / Section of Brew house / Bake house / Dairy / Scullery to Dairy / Bath / Dressing Room / Underback / Mash Tub / Brewhouse / Cooler / Tub / Cooler / Tub / Section of Brewhouse / Working Tub / Working tub / Cooler / Cooler and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1760-1763
date range: 1760-63

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (602 x 494)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 7
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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