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[2] Design for a castle-style building, 1792, executed to a variant design
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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
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
King, Volume 1, 2001, pp. 175-6
Further literary references in scheme notes
Level
Drawing
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