Gosford House (earlier designs)

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Gosford House (earlier designs) refers to the original 18th-century architectural plans by Scottish architect William Adam for a grand neoclassical country house in East Lothian, Scotland.

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instanceOf architectural design
country house design
neoclassical architectural plan
architect William Adam NERFINISHED
architecturalStyle Neoclassical architecture
Palladian architecture NERFINISHED
client Wemyss family NERFINISHED
commissionedBy Earl of Wemyss NERFINISHED
country Scotland
designedForUse aristocratic residence
country estate seat
documentedIn architectural drawings by William Adam
followedBy Gosford House (later designs by Robert Adam) NERFINISHED
genre country house architecture
hasHistoricalPeriod Georgian era
hasPart central block design
colonnaded portico design
courtyard layout
entrance front elevation design
flanking wings design
formal approach avenue design
garden front elevation design
piano nobile layout
service wings layout
state apartments arrangement
hasQuality axial planning
classical detailing
monumental scale
symmetrical composition
inception c. 1740s
influencedBy Andrea Palladio NERFINISHED
Palladian country houses in England
languageOfWork architectural drawing notation
locatedIn East Lothian NERFINISHED
Gosford Estate NERFINISHED
locationOfCreation Scotland NERFINISHED
partOf Gosford House (overall project) NERFINISHED
startTime 18th century
subjectOf research on William Adam’s architectural oeuvre
studies of Scottish country house design

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William Adam notableWork Gosford House (earlier designs)