[17] Design for the ground floor of the kitchen 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)
    - Designs for a circular kitchen court and offices, c.1789, unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/75

Purpose

[17] Design for the ground floor of the kitchen offices, c.1789, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground plan of an arcaded circular range of kitchen offices adjoining a castle, with a kitchen block and wash house with an adjoining drying yard, and on the opposite side of the kitchen is a pavilion with a central gateway, with an enclosed fowl yard and kitchen court with stores. Rooms include stores for bottles, knives, charcoal, wood, coals, beer and ale, and shoes as well as a bake house, office, clerk’s room, servant’s room, dairy, pantry, hen house, larders and scullery

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Part of the body of the Castle / Design of a Court of Offices proposed to join at the N. E corner of Findlater Castle to be sufficiently sunk not to interupt the / prospect from the one pair Story of the Castle / Albemarle Street / C[_ _ _] Shoes / Knives / Bottles / Bottles / Charcoal / Drying Yard / Laundry above / Wash house / Closet / Pantry / Storeroom / Fowl Yard / Coals / Wood / Privy / Door / Hen house / Beer & Ale / Sh[_ _ _] / Closet / Office / Clerks / room / Gateway / Bake / House / Bread / room / Oven / Servants / room / Scullery / Dairy / Larder / Kitchen / Court / Coals / Ward / Privy / Day Larder / Scullery / Kitchen (all underwritten in pencil) / (verso) no 3

Signed and dated

c.1789
datable to c.1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (483x290)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

J WHATMAN

Level

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