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Reference number

SM Adam volume 33/43

Purpose

[23] Preliminary design for a rectangular house, 1771, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, crenellated house, with a the central three bays containing a central arched door in the ground storey, surmounted by a two-storey, five-bay circular tower, and this is surmounted by a single-storey, three-bay circular tower, and the central bays are flanked by three-and-a-half-storey, three-bay canted towers. Beyond this central portion are links of four bays to either side of a central projecting portion, on the right-hand side this projecting portion contains a tripartite window on each storey, and has a pepper-pot turret at each top corner, and on the left-hand side the projecting portion is three bays wide, with a central arched window on the ground storey, flanked by projecting square towers, each of which is surmounted by a small conical turret. Beyond the links are wings, and on the right-hand side the wing is composed of a central five-bay bow, flanked by four-storey, three-bay circular towers, and on the left-hand side the wing is composed of three bays flanked by four-storey, three-bay canted towers, with conical roofs

Scale

to a rough scale

Inscribed

Lowther Hall the Seat of Sir James Lowther, afterwards / Earl of Lonsdale (all in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Front for Lowther Hall (on a small separate sheet of paper affixed to the drawing) / No. 21. / Sir James has a Copy in Pencil only / (and in pencil) Tower / Tower / Tower / Tower / Tower / Tower / Tower / Tower / Tower / Tower (verso) Lowther Castle / 5 Ground Plans 1 Elevation / with a Ground Plan & 1 Elevation for the Dairy (all on a small separate sheet affixed to the verso of the drawing)

Signed and dated

  • 1771
    Janry 26t.1771.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (545 x 267)

Hand

Robert Adam, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 21
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 163
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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