[6] Design for a castle-style building, c.1790, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - 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)
    - Designs for a castle-style house and offices, c.1790, unexecuted (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/81

Purpose

[6] Design for a castle-style building, c.1790, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, nineteen-bay building over a basement with circular corner towers flanking protruding bays, and a central balustraded staircase. The entire elevation is adorned with square-headed windows, tripartite windows within relieving arches, and slit windows as well as string coursing, balustrading, machicolated cornices and corbelled bartizans. There is a pencil sketch of a proposed roof as well as decorative additions to the central bays

Scale

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

Inscribed

Design for the West Front of Fullarton Castle the Seat of / Colonel William Fullarton / (verso) 3 /

Signed and dated

c.1790
datable to c.1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (278x273)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Verso

Sketch plan of a house

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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