[7] Design for the joists to the principal floor of a castle-style house, 1792, executed status unknown

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Mauldsley or Mauldslie Castle, Lanarkshire: designs for a castle-style house and stables for Thomas Carmichael, 5th Earl of Hyndford, 1791-96, as executed (15)
    - Designs and finished drawings for a castle-style house, 1791-92, as executed (11)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/13

Purpose

[7] Design for the joists to the principal floor of a castle-style house, 1792, executed status unknown

Aspect

Joist plan of the principal (first) floor comprising a rectangular house with four circular corner towers showing joists over the principal and subsidiary rooms

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Joisting for the Principal Story of Mauldslie Castle / No ² / Eating room / To be [_ _ _ __ _ _] & the joists / to be cut Camber / Saloon / to have joists where necessary & / [_ _ _ _ _ _] over the Arch -- / Drawing room / Stairs / Formerly Bedch^r / Closet / Dress^g room / Hall & Lobby / to be / Paved / Stairs / Dress^g room / Pantry / My Lords Library / as dress^g rooms / a groove to be left in the wall at A for the pipes of the water closet / to communicate with the drain in Serv^ts rooms -

Signed and dated

28/06/1792
Edin^b 28 June / 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including pink and yellow on laid paper (440x305)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 22
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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