[4] Preliminary design giving an elevation showing the dairy, 1776, executed with alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Knowsley Park, Lancashire: unexecuted designs for a lodge, and alterations and additions to the house, and executed designs for a dairy, for the 12th Earl of Derby, 1776-77 (9)
    - Preliminary design and designs for a dairy, 1776-77, as executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/69

Purpose

[4] Preliminary design giving an elevation showing the dairy, 1776, executed with alterations

Aspect

Rough elevation of a dairy building, with a two-storey, three-bay circular central block, with a conical roof surmounted by a central conical drum, and with a central door flanked by Doric columns supporting a pediment, and the door is flanked by windows on the ground storey, and roundels above, and the central block has a single-storey, single-bay link to the right-hand side, containing a door within a relieving arch, and with a balustraded roof line, and beyond is a single-storey, single-bay pedimented link, with a frieze of festoons, and on the right-hand side of the drawing is a section of the central block, showing a central spiral staircase, giving access to the first floor (verso) a rough pencil-drawn view of a rustic gateway and lodge

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Dairy for the Countess of Derby and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1776
datable to 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (285 x 195)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

CTAYLOR

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 20
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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