[11] Design for the south elevation of castle-style stables and offices, 1790, as executed

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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)
    - Designs for castle-style stables and offices, 1790, executed in part (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/86

Purpose

[11] Design for the south elevation of castle-style stables and offices, 1790, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, fifteen-bay building with a central, arched carriage entrance flanked by circular towers and terminating in three-bay blocks with crow-stepped gables and corbelled bartizans. The building is adorned with a mixture of square and slit windows, machicolated cornices, heraldry and an urn

Scale

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

Inscribed

South front of a new Design of Stable and Farm Offices for Colonel Fullerton of Fullerton / 12 / floor / Extends 156 feet / (verso) N^o 2 / Stable offices for Colonel Fullerton / 2 Elevations 2 Ground Plans

Signed and dated

26/7/1790
Edinburgh / 26^th July 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (473x279)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J Whatman

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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