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

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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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 36/87

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, seventeen-bay building with a central, arched carriage entrance flanked by crow-stepped gabled bays and terminating in two-bay, arcaded blocks. The building is adorned with a mixture of square-headed windows, some in relieving arches, slit windows, corbelled bartizans, moulded cornices, medallions, crosses and heraldry

Scale

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

Inscribed

West Front of a new Design of Stable and Farm Offices for Colonel Fullerton of Fullerton / 12 / floor / Extends 172 feet

Signed and dated

1790
datable to 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (530x293)

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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