[26] Preliminary design for the guard house building, 1789

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Public buildings
  - Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh: executed, including unexecuted designs for a terrace on Leith Street, a Deputy Ranger’s House, and a guard house, 1772-92 (28)
    - Preliminary design, design and finished drawing for the guard house, 1789, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/69

Purpose

[26] Preliminary design for the guard house building, 1789

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a single-storey triangular building, with a concave, five-bay front, with a central door flanked by windows, each within a relieving arch, and the end bays are articulated by Doric pilasters, and surmounted by a sculpted unicorn to the left, and a lion to the right, and with a central drum and dome above the building

Scale

to a rough scale

Inscribed

Guard room / for the Guard [ _ _ _ _ ] / [ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ ] / Door / Coals (?) / Guard bed / [ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ ] and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1789
datable to 1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (317 x 316)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 11
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 55
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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