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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Predicate Object
instanceOf architectural design
country house design
neoclassical architectural plan
architect William Adam
architecturalStyle Neoclassical architecture
Palladian architecture
client Wemyss family
commissionedBy Earl of Wemyss
country Scotland
designedForUse aristocratic residence
country estate seat
documentedIn architectural drawings by William Adam
followedBy Gosford House (later designs by Robert Adam)
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
Palladian country houses in England
languageOfWork architectural drawing notation
locatedIn East Lothian
Gosford Estate
locationOfCreation Scotland
partOf Gosford House (overall project)
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)
Gosford House (earlier designs) partOf Gosford House (overall project)
linked to: Gosford House (earlier designs)
Gosford House (earlier designs) followedBy Gosford House (later designs by Robert Adam)
linked to: Gosford House (earlier designs)