[1] Design for the ground floor of Wedderburn Castle, c.1767-71, executed to a variant design

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  - Wedderburn Castle, Duns: designs for additions to a tower house for Patrick Home of Billie, c.1767-71, executed to a variant design (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/80

Purpose

[1] Design for the ground floor of Wedderburn Castle, c.1767-71, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Ground floor plan comprising proposed additions to an existing tower house (shown in dark wash). The existing house comprises two ranges, set at angles from each other and connected by a staircase with an irregular-shaped adjoining service wing. The proposed additions include a five-room long southern range with octagonal corner towers at each end. The proposed range is one-room deep with a corridor terminating in a staircase at the west end, and a new front at the east end with an octagonal tower adjoining the existing range at the north end

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

North / (underwritten in pencil) Plan of additions in the Castle Style for Patrick Home of Billy Esq^r / (in pencil) Drawing rooms above / Dining Room / above / (verso) Number 17 / Patrick Home Esq^rof Billy / 3

Signed and dated

c.1767-1771
datable to c.1767-71

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and Indian red wash on laid paper (603x499)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, J. P. Laurent or William Hamilton

Literature

King, 2001, pp. 220-21
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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