[37] Design for a castle-style building and walled terraces, c.1779-82, executed to a variant design

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Culzean Castle, Ayrshire: designs for additions to a castle-style building and its stables and walled gardens, along with a home farm, viaduct, and interior decoration and furniture for David Kennedy, 10th Earl of Cassilis, c.1776-87, executed in part (57)
    - Preliminary designs for a group of castle-style buildings and walled terraces, c.1779-82, executed to a variant design (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/32

Purpose

[37] Design for a castle-style building and walled terraces, c.1779-82, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Elevation of a castle-style building with walled terraces in the foreground, set within a wooded landscape. The main building is four storeys tall and three bays wide with flanking three-storey wings with corner turrets. At one end is a single-storey range with a taller building to the rear with a conical roof. Across the elevation of the group of buildings are a mixture of square-headed windows, tripartite, arched, cross and slit windows, and oculi. There are also a mixture of corbelled bartizans, machicolated cornices, string coursing and crenelations. The walled terraces have corbelled coping and end towers with machicolated cornices

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

c.1779-82
datable to c.1779-82

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (490x351)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

Fleur de lis [in part]

Literature

King, 2001, pp. 330-3
Moss, 2002, pp. 70-71
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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