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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/111

Purpose

[32] Preliminary design for the stables, 1785, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation, similar to drawing one, with a thirteen-bay curtain wall around the ground storey, with a central carriage arch, flanked by tapering circular towers containing slit windows surmounted by cross-shaped slit windows, and beyond are link walls each containing four arched windows surmounted by an oculus window, and further tapering towers. The first storey is narrower, being nine bays wide, with a central window within a relieving arch, flanked by projecting bays containing slit windows, and surmounted by pepper-pot turrets, and beyond to either side are two windows, each within a relieving arch, and a further projecting bay with a pepper-pot turret. The second storey is narrower still, being five bays wide, and containing cross-shaped slit windows, and surmounted by a flag

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1785
    datable to 1785

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (255 x 195)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 245
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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