[2] Design for the principal 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 36/83

Purpose

[2] Design for the principal floor of a house, c.1790, unexecuted

Aspect

Principal (first) floor plan for an irregular-hexagon-shaped building with round towers at each angle and a central protruding porch for carriages. There are several rooms arranged around a central lobby flanked by a principal staircase and back stairs. Rooms include a large entrance hall with a vaulted ceiling, flanked by dressing rooms and a library and bed chamber, followed by a dining room and drawing room with double-apsidal ends and central protruding bays, and a rear saloon with external steps, with water closets in the round towers. To the front of the house are adjoining curved walls which connect to a range of offices including a washhouse, laundry, scullery, dairy, hen house, gyle house, and brew house, with enclosed rear yards. There is a pencil sketch for a wall elevation Flier open: alternative design for the office range with the addition of a curved front, containing staircases, with protruding ends with round corner towers

Scale

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

Inscribed

Principal Storey of Fullarton Castle the Seat of / Colonel William Fullarton / Library / Water Closet / Antiroom or Dressing room / Closet / Back Stairs / Principal Staircase / Hall / Water Closet / Dressing room / Bed chamber / Closet / Dressg room / Water Closet / Drawing room / Closet / Closet / Saloon / Closet / Closet / Dining room / Closet / Court / Washhouse / Laundry / Scullery / Dairy / Hen House / Gyle House / Brew House / Brew house Yard / Poultry Yard / Drying Yard / (under flier) Court / Laundry / Dairy / Scullery / Scullery / Brew house / Drying Yard / Poultry Yard / Brew house Yard and some measurements given / (verso) No 5 / Colonel Fullarton

Signed and dated

c.1790
datable to c.1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (575x495)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche / Footed P

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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