Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . ig. 61.—Grate in the Drawing-Room at Kedleston. (See Fig. 80.). Fig. 62 Irons, 3 Strat-Place. from time to time to prepare designsfor Croome Court, or Croome Park,1as it was then called, and for LordCoventrys town house in Piccadilly,now the St Jamess Club. TheGreenhouse, erected by Robert Adamin 1760, is still standing. It liesopposite the north front of the house,at a considerable distance, and near tothe Pleasure Grounds and the NewChurch. Like most of the buildingsin the vicinity,
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . ig. 61.—Grate in the Drawing-Room at Kedleston. (See Fig. 80.). Fig. 62 Irons, 3 Strat-Place. from time to time to prepare designsfor Croome Court, or Croome Park,1as it was then called, and for LordCoventrys town house in Piccadilly,now the St Jamess Club. TheGreenhouse, erected by Robert Adamin 1760, is still standing. It liesopposite the north front of the house,at a considerable distance, and near tothe Pleasure Grounds and the NewChurch. Like most of the buildingsin the vicinity, it is built of oolitic 1 Measured drawings of Croom Parkwere published in the fifth volume of the Vit-ruvius Eritannicus. On these the name of Lan. Brown, Archt, alone appears. VideCroome DAbitot, by William Dean, Wor-cester, 1824. THE EARLY WORK OF ROBERT ADAM 81 stone from Bredon Hill, a material which looks to the greatestadvantage when seen, as in this case, beside the fine, luxuriantfoliage of spreading cedar trees (Fig. 63). In the pediment overthe colonnade of the Greenhouse some carving occurs, which iswidely different from later work of the same kind execute
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