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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/35

Purpose

[8] Finished drawing for the ground plan of a castle-style house and range of stables and offices, and two sets of gated entrances within the adjoining parkland, 1788-89, executed in part

Aspect

Ground plan of a house and office range within a landscape with details of the pathways and gates. The house comprises an irregular-shaped building of three principal ranges with two circular towers and a three-bay bow in the intersection between the ranges. Rooms include a drawing room, dressing room, hall, dining room and riding house for exercise. The offices comprises a quadrangular range enclosing two internal courts, one with a central dung pit, with additional yards adjoining one side of the range. Rooms include a variety of stables, barns as well as a brew house, bake house, dairy, scullery, blacksmiths, privy, bedroom and stores for potatoes. The different colour washes denote existing fabric (black) and proposed fabric (pink)

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Principal Story of Castle Upton with the proposed additions / with the Plans of the Stable & Farm Offices (and in a different hand) the Seat of / The Right Honorable Lord Templeton ~ / (in a different hand) North / South / West / Drawing room / Dressing room / Hall / Dining room / Riding houses or / Great room for Exercise / Drying Ground / Rick Yard / Pidgeon House / Poultry Yard / Wash house / Cart Shed / Barn / Pigs / Hens / Scullery / Dairy / Cow house / Garden / Farm Offices / Dung / [_ _ _ _ _ _ _] / Closet / Bed room / Smiths / Privy / Bake house / Brew house / Gyle house / Potatoes / Stable Offices / Potatoes / Saddle horses / Coach / horses / Coach / horses / Saddle horses / Turf house / Coach / Houses / Calves / Farm / Horses / Farm / Horses with some dimensions / (verso) 8

Signed and dated

  • 1788-89
    datable to 1788-89

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink wash on laid paper (610x465)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

Footed P

Notes

In this drawing, only the stables and offices were executed. The extension to the main house was not carried out.

Literature

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

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Drawing

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