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[8] Design for a five-block house, 1767, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 33/56
Purpose
[8] Design for a five-block house, 1767, unexecuted
Aspect
Ground plan of a tripartite house, with a central octagonal block, being seven bays wide on each front, and arranged around a colonnaded circular court, and with a circular tower on each of the external corners, and the central block is flanked by five-bay links, and five- by four-bay U-shaped wings, with a square tower at each corner, and the left-hand wing is has an additional segmental, colonnaded range enclosing the central court, and the house contains service and domestic rooms, and three laboratories in the right-hand wing, and in the right-hand bottom corner is a pencil-drawn annotation showing a bridge
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the Ground Story of Lowther Hall / 20 feet high, the Seat of Sir James Lowther Bart (the Seat of Sir James Lowther Bart in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / No 6 / Sir James has a fair Copy of this / Poultry Yard / Coals / Privy / Wood / Wood / Wood / Wood / Privy / Coals / Poultry Yard other side are Menageries / Office at the other end exactly / the same / Laundry / Wash House / Scullery / Kitchen / Scullery / Gyle House / Brew house / Passage / Wet Larder / Bake House / Pastry / Passage / Scullery to Dairy / Butlers Room / Butlers Pantry / Butlers Bed Room / Under Butlers Room / Vestibule / Servants Hall / Vestibule / Stewards Dining Room / Coffee Room / Bar / Coffee Maids Room / Passage / Evidence Room / Stewards Room / Strong Room / Stewards Bed Room / Writing Room / Porters Room / Vestibule / Guards / Room / Vestibule / Groom of the Chambers room / Housekeepers Bed Room / Housekeepers Room / Store Room / Dairy / Court / Statue Gallery / Maids room Bed Room / Hot Bath / Bed Room / Water Closet / Laboratory / Laboratory / Laboratory / Water Closet / Bed Room / Cold Bath / Passage / Bed Room / Valets room and measurements given (verso) Ground Story of the Circular Plan
Signed and dated
- 1767
Novr. 26t. 1767.
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (1053 x 587)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly James Adam, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
D&CBLAUW and XD&CB within a cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 21
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 163
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 163
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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