[8] Design for stables and offices, 1790, executed in part

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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 36/88

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
Edin^r 26 July 179[_]

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (611x521)

Hand

Possibly
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.

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