[4] Preliminary design for a new house, 1770, unexecuted

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  - Wynnstay House, Ruabon, Denbighshire: unexecuted designs for the house, unexecuted designs for a monument to David Garrick for the park, and an executed design for a font for St Mary's Church, Ruabon, for Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, 1770-79 (13)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/49-50

Purpose

[4] Preliminary design for a new house, 1770, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, eleven-bay house, with a balustraded, pitched roof, and a rusticated basement, and with the central five bays projecting on the ground storey, with a three-bay arcade, flanked by half-turn stairs, and this is surmounted by balustrading, and a five-bay portico with alternative Spalatro order and Ionic fluted columns, supporting a pedestal, and the central block is flanked by three-and-a-half-storey, single-bay pavilions, with pitched roofs, and rusticated basements, articulated by pilasters across the first and second storeys, and with a Venetian window within a relieving arch on the first storey, and a Diocletian window in the fourth storey

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet (on separate sheet)

Inscribed

East front of Winnstay house and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1770
datable to 1770

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (508 x 279)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 32
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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