[1] Design for a castle-style building, 1792, executed to a variant design

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  - Stobs Castle, Borders: designs for a castle-style building for Sir William Eliott 6th Baronet of Stobs, 1792, as executed (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 30/87

Purpose

[1] Design for a castle-style building, 1792, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Basement (ground) storey plan comprising a series of rooms arranged around a central staircase to the front of the building. There are passages to the front of the house connecting to the pavilions. Rooms include a lobby, store room, butler’s room, housekeeper’s room, servant’s hall, servant’s bedroom and cellar. There is a partial outline of an additional block opposite the front of the house

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Plan of the half sunk Story of Stobs Castle. The Seat of Sir William Eliott Bart ~ / wine in Bottles / Cellar / (in pencil) Wine Ale [_ _ _ _] / Cork / (in pen) Storeroom / Closet / Housekeeper / Passage / Water Closet / Servts Bed / room / Lobby / Plate / Closet / Butler / Bed / Servants Hall / Passage with some room dimensions and calculations / (verso) 3 / Sir William Eliot / Stobs Castle ~ / (and in a different hand) William Eliot SStobs[sic] [_ _ _tl_]

Signed and dated

1792
datable to 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (478x300)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

Bolton, Volume II, 1922, p. 29
King, Volume 1, 2001, pp. 175-6
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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