[1] Design for the ground floor of a house, c.1790, unexecuted

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  - Fullarton House or Castle, Ayrshire: designs for a castle-style house and stables, and a Roman-style temple for William Fullarton, of Fullarton, c.1790, executed in part (13)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/82

Purpose

[1] Design for the ground floor of a house, c.1790, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground plan for an irregular-hexagon-shaped building with round towers at each angle and a central protruding porch. There are several rooms arranged around a central lobby and staircase with passages, and the rooms include a kitchen, scullery, servants’ hall, storerooms for wine, beer and ale and rooms for the housekeeper, butler and steward

Scale

to a scale of 3/4 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground Story / Kitchen / Larder / Larder / Passage / Servants Hall / Wine in Casks / Wine & Ale Cellers / Beer & Ale Cellar / Stewards Writing room / Stewards room / Plate &c. / Butlers pantry / Passage / Wine in Bottles / Back Stairs / Butlers room / Store rm / Housekeeper / Scullery / Oven and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

c.1790
datable to c.1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (477x274)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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