[11] Design for the elevation of a castle-style house and a range of castle-style stables and offices, 1788, executed in part

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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, and a range of stables and offices, 1788-89, executed in part (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/28

Purpose

[11] Design for the elevation of a castle-style house and a range of castle-style stables and offices, 1788, executed in part

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, castle-style house with four-storey circular towers with conical roofs and ground floor arcades, with an adjoining single-storey range followed by a one-to-two-storey stable and office block with a central arched tower with a pyramidal roof. Across the entire elevation are a mixture of square-headed windows, arched windows, and oculi as well as machicolated cornices, string coursing, crenelations and corbelled bartizans

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design for Lord Templeton / (in a different hand) a Copy of the front of the stable offices from A & B to a larger / scale in lines Sent to Lady Templeton 7^t^h March 1788 with some dimensions / (in a curator’s hand) stables / Exist / Castle Upton ? / (verso) Lord Templetown / No 1 / 14 Pieces Viz 8 Ground Plans & 6 Elevations from No 9 / No 1

Signed and dated

5/3/1788
5 March 1788

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (547x377)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

J WHATMAN

Literature

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

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