[39] Preliminary design for a stable block and walled terraces, c.1779-82, executed in part

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - 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 1/33

Purpose

[39] Preliminary design for a stable block and walled terraces, c.1779-82, executed in part

Aspect

Elevation of a castle-style stable block, with walled terraces in the foreground and part of a viaduct on one side, set within a wooded landscape. The stable block has a tall central tower with bartizans on the corners, with a lower L-shaped range to the front, with tall round towers at the corners, and adorned with tripartite arched windows, square-headed windows and oculi, and string coursing and machicolated cornices. The terraced walls have corbelled crenelations (a combination of SM Adam volume 1/31 and 32), with buttressed towers adorned with crenelations and machicolated cornices. The part of the viaduct is shown in coursed stonework with a corbelled turret bartizan on one side and a round tower on the other

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (388x253)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

Notes

Moss states that the stables were embellished by Adam during the first phase of his works in c.1779-82. The part of the viaduct shown in this drawing was not executed to this design.

Literature

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

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