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[8] Design for stables and offices, 1790, executed in part
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 36/88
Purpose
[8] Design for stables and offices, 1790, executed in part
Aspect
Ground plan of stables and offices arranged around a central square courtyard with entrances in the centre of each range. Rooms include stables, a barn, sheds for carts, smiths and carpenters, coach houses, a dog kennel, harness and saddle rooms, a dairy, a slaughterhouse, and houses for cows and calves. There is a pencil sketch for part of an elevation of the south range
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 of an inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of a Court of Stable and Farm Offices Designed for Colonel William Fullerton of Fullerton In the Shire if Ayr / North / East / South / West / Court / Barn / Shed for Carts / Dog Kennel / Feeding Place / Stable / Entrance 12 feet wide / Stable / Double Coach house / Double Coach House / Stable / Harness room / Entrance 12 feet wide / Sadle room / Stable / Double Coach House / Double Coach House / Cow House / Calf house / Slaughter House / Dairy maid / Packs &c / Dairy / Shed for Smith & Carpenter and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 26/07/1790
Edinr 26 July 179[_]
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (611x521)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Watermark
W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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