[23] Design for farm offices, c.1789, unexecuted

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  - Findlater Castle, Moray: designs for a castle, stables and offices, gates and a bridge for James Ogilvy 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield, 1789, unexecuted (26)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/78

Purpose

[23] Design for farm offices, c.1789, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground plan comprising a rectangular group of offices enclosing three internal courtyards, with a poultry yard, corn yard and washing green on one side followed by a semi-circular timber yard. The central courtyard has a dung pit and is flanked on two sides by arcaded sheds with central gateways that provide external access, these gateways have small turrets on the exterior. At each corner of the offices are pavilions containing circular rooms including a laundry and dairy. Other rooms include stables, barns, a slaughterhouse, black smith shop, carpenter shop, a store for turnips and a farmhouse with a kitchen, pantry and closet

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

(Underwritten in pencil) Design of a Court of Farm Offices for the Right Hon.^ble The Earl of Findlater & Seafield / Timber Yard / Poultry Yard / Corn Yard / Washing Green / Fowls / Ducks / & / Geese / Turnips / Stable / Barn / Stable / Coals / Wash house / Laundry / [D_ _ _ _] / Calf / House / Calf yard / Cattle / Shed / Gateway / Gateway / Cattle / Shed / Dairy Yard / Cow / house / Dairy / Scullery / Dairy Maids / Coals / wood / Privy / Cow herd / Pantry / Closet / Farm / House / Kitchen / Store / room / Privy / Granary / Pig house / Swine / herd / Slaughter / House / Pig Yard / Cart / Shed / Smith / shop / Gateway / Gateway / Carpenter / shop / Hatch / room / Poultry / mixed / Chicken / Yard / Court / shed / Dung pit / (in pencil) West / Barn / 76 / (verso) These Plans go 16 into the Book

Signed and dated

c.1789
datable to c.1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (453x281)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

J WHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 13
King, 2001, p. 244
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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