[13] Variant 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 1/205

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a two-storey gardener’s house, with flanking screen walls with arched openings. The ground floor is rusticated with a wide central arch with a key stone and steps. The first floor has a tripartite opening articulated by columns supporting a pediment, within a large pedimented section flanked by windows with panels above, with recessed stairwells with arched openings and pitched roofs beyond. The first-floor garden room is double-apsidal with niches to each corner

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Sketch of the Gardener’s House in the New Kitchen Garden at Cullen, To be kept Smaller, no great / rooms above, the 2 Staircases taken away, & the Stairs to be within to the Gardeners rooms / Garden Kitchen / Garden Room / up a few steps – / (in pencil) Gardeners House &c / Cullen with some calculations and dimensions

Signed and dated

c.1775
datable to c.1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (289x289)

Hand

Probably
Robert or James Adam

Verso

Sketch plan of Findlater Castle

Watermark

Cartouche surmounted by a fleur de lis

Notes

The verso of this drawing is catalogued within the scheme: Findlater Castle, Moray.

Literature

King, 2001, p. 217
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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