[4] Design for the attic floor 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 30/34

Purpose

[4] Design for the attic floor of a castle-style building, 1793, unexecuted

Aspect

Garret (attic) floor plan comprising two barrack rooms and two bedrooms arranged around an open-well staircase. The rear bedroom is octagonal

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Plan of the Garret Story / (in the hand of William Adam) of Knockear Castle / Barrack room / Bedroom / Staircases / Bedroom / Barrack room with some room dimensions / (verso) This to be placed seventh / (in another pen) John Buchanan Esqr Knockear Castle

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (472x265)

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

Level

Drawing

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