[6] Design for the rear front of a castle-style building, 1793, unexecuted

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  - Knockear or Knockour Castle, Stirling: Designs for a castle-style building for John Buchanan of Ardoch, 1793, unexecuted (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 30/30

Purpose

[6] Design for the rear front of a castle-style building, 1793, unexecuted

Aspect

Rear elevation of a two-storey castle-style building with a central three-storey canted bay tower and flanking single-storey pavilions connected by links, over a half-sunk basement. The building is adorned with crenellations and machicolated cornices and there is a grand entrance staircase to the principal floor. There is a mixture of square, slit, cross and segmental-arched windows as well as oculi

Scale

bar scale of 7/8 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation of ~~the~~ Knockear Castle Fronting toward Loch Lomond with pencil annotations on the verso

Signed and dated

14/10/1793
Albemarle Street / 14 Oct^b 1793

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (462x280)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Watermark

J Whatman

Literature

Bolton, Volume II, Index, 1922, p.20
King, Volume 2, 2001, pp. 138, 163
Further literary references in scheme notes

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Drawing

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