[5] Finished drawing for the principal front of a castle-style building, with pavilions, gated entrances and screen walls, 1790, unexecuted

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  - Thirlestane Castle: designs for alterations and additions to the house and grounds, for James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, 1790, unexecuted (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/66

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for the principal front of a castle-style building, with pavilions, gated entrances and screen walls, 1790, unexecuted

Aspect

Front (principal) elevation of a castle-style building with flanking screen walls containing four pavilions with stepped and gated entrances in between. The main building is three storeys over a basement with a central four-storey tower with a conical roof, flanking single bays with conical roofs, and projecting outer wings, crenellated at second-floor level. There is a ramped entrance leading to a projecting porch with a segmental-arch opening in the platform. Flanking the main building are two screen walls containing central, stepped entranceways with gabled openings. The four pavilions are three storeys and three bays, with two-storey circular tower ends. The outer flanking walls are bowed, with central, piered gates with a ramped entrance. Across the entire elevation, there is a mixture of machicolated cornices, corner bartizans and coats of arms as well as a lancet, cross and square windows and oculi

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design for altering the Principal Front of Thirlestane Castle towards the West, Shewing the Covered passages leading to the Brewhouse & Kitchen offices, at the North end: & to the Stable & Coachouse [sic] offices at the South / end of the Semicircular Court, with the Ramps & Gateways into these Courts of Offices (and in the hand of William Adam) for The Right Honble The Earl of Lauderdale / (in pencil) 65 and some dimensions. (Verso) Lauder Castle / 1 / Lauderdale

Signed and dated

1790
Edin^b. Rob’ Adam Architect 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including sepia and Payne’s grey on laid paper (905x339)

Hand

Adam, Robert (1728--1792)
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche / J Whatman

Literature

Bolton, 1992, Index, p. 30
Further literary references in scheme notes

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