[6] Design for the principal elevation of a castellated house, 1783, executed to a variant design

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Castle Upton, Templepatrick, Co Antrim: designs for additions to a castle and a new stable block and offices for Clotworthy Upton, Lord Templetown, and a mausoleum dedicated to Arthur Upton, 1783-89 (16)
    - Designs for additions to a castle-style house, 1783, executed to a variant design (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/29

Purpose

[6] Design for the principal elevation of a castellated house, 1783, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey building with a round tower with a conical roof, and an additional tower with a conical roof at one end, both with weathervanes. There is an arched entrance with hood moulding within a porch with a parapet adorned with lozenges and corbelled corner bartizans, and is approached by a set of stairs. The entire elevation is adorned with a continuous machicolated cornice, crenelations, corbelled bartizans with pepper-pot roofs

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Another Design for Lord Templetown

Signed and dated

28/5/1783
Adelphi / 28^h May 1783

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (400x254)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 6
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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