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[7] Design for a castle-style building, 1792, executed to a variant design
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 30/86
Purpose
[7] 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, all over a half sunk basement. 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. The rest of the main block and the pavilions are crenelated and contain square corner towers, those on the corners of the main building contain conical pepper-pot-roofed turrets. 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
West front of Stobs Castle. / The Seat of Sir William Eliott Bart ~ / The Stairs marked A are left out ~ / (verso) 2
Signed and dated
- 28/01/1792
Albemarle Street / 28th Janry 1792
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (480x235)
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, 355
Further literary references in scheme notes
King, Volume 1, 2001, pp. 175-6, 355
Further literary references in scheme notes
Level
Drawing
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