[6] Design for a castle-style building, 1792, executed to a variant design

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  - Stobs Castle, Borders: designs for a castle-style building for Sir William Eliott 6th Baronet of Stobs, 1792, as executed (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 30/85

Purpose

[6] Design for a castle-style building, 1792, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, nine-bay, castle-style building with single-storey flanking wings terminating in single-bay pavilions. The central three bays of the main building contain a garret storey and are flanked by crenelated single-bay towers, with a crow-stepped gable above containing a coat of arms. The rest of the main block and the pavilions are crenelated and contain square corner towers. There are a mixture of slit, square and cross windows as well as oculi

Scale

bar scale of 7/8 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

East front of Stobs Castle. / The Seat of Sir William Eliott Bart ~

Signed and dated

28/01/1792
Albemarle Street / 28^th Janry 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (481x276)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

Bolton, Volume II, 1922, p. 29
King, Volume 1, 2001, pp. 175-6, 355
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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