[12] Preliminary design for a town house or garderner's house, c.1775, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Cullen House, Moray: designs for the interior decoration of Cullen House and an entrance screen for James Ogilvy, 6th Earl of Findlater and 3rd Earl of Seafield, and designs for a chimney piece and furniture for the drawing room at Cullen House, along with a tea pavilion, town house or gardener’s house, and a gated lodge for James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield, 1767-83, executed in part (26)
    - Preliminary drawings and designs for a town house or garderners house for the 7th Earl of Findlater, c.1775, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/209

Purpose

[12] Preliminary design for a town house or garderner's house, c.1775, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, three-bay house with a hipped roof. The ground-floor central bay is rusticated and comprises a central arched opening with a key stone, and steps, flanked by niches with fluted friezes and moulded cornice above, and enclosed rosettes. The first-floor central bay is pedimented with Tuscan columns and flanked by windows with consoled surrounds. The entire elevation is adorned with string coursing and a dentilled cornice, and there is a continuous first-floor balustrade

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Town house at Cullen

Signed and dated

c.1775
datable to c.1775

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (224x201)

Hand

Probably
Robert or James Adam

Watermark

Fleur de lis [in part]

Literature

King, 2001, p. 54
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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