[2] 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 30/88

Purpose

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

Aspect

Principal (first) storey plan comprising three large rooms arranged a central staircase to the front of the building. There are flanking wings containing an enclosed yard and store rooms, terminating in rectangular pavilions. Rooms include a dining room, breakfast room, drawing room, stables, coach houses and kitchens. To the front of the building is another range comprising a screen wall terminating in enclosed yards and pavilions containing a stables and some coach houses

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Plan of the Principal Story of Stobs Castle and Offices. The Seat of Sir William Eliott Bart. / Stables / Yard / when 2 temporary / coachhouses [__]ng / be made / Drawing room / Closet / Breakfast room / or a Library / Closet / Hall Staircase / Closet / Closet / Dining room / Knives / Shoes / Larder / Larder / Kitchen / Pantry / Scullery / Stable / Yard / Yard / Coach House / Coach House / Coach House

Signed and dated

28/01/1792
Albemarle Street / 28th Jan[_] 17[_] / datable to 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (479x285)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

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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