[33] Later design for elevation in a Castle style

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  - Dunninald House, Craig, Angus: unexecuted designs for David Scott, 1795 (43)
    - Variant designs in a Castle style (19)

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Reference number

SM 46/1/9

Purpose

[33] Later design for elevation in a Castle style

Aspect

Front elevation amd (verso) slight plans in feint pencil

Scale

Bar scale of 1/8 inch to one foot

Inscribed

Elevation of the Entrance Front and N^o.5 and vertical dimensions given: Attic floor 9' 0" / One Pair 12' 0"/ Principal floor17' 0" and Basement 10' 6"

Signed and dated

17/10/1795
Lincolns Inn Fields October 1795

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, shaded in thin wove paper (320 x 554)

Hand

Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837)

Watermark

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Notes

Dated October1795 this appears to be the last of the designs for David Scott's house. Drawn by Soane it differs little from, for example, front elevations [25] and [26], the latter dated 17 July 1795. The door is different, it is now a three-part door with three arched heads. The turrets are all shown with three windows as in plans [19] and [20] and are circular on plan as in Soane's sketch plan of 25 July 1795. The attic storey has six 'pilasters' with crosses instead of the two shown on earlier drawings.

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