[43] Design for a group of castle-style buildings, 1784, unexecuted

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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)
    - Designs for additions to Culzean Castle, 1784-85, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/9

Purpose

[43] Design for a group of castle-style buildings, 1784, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey castle-style building set within a clifftop landscape, with a central rotunda with a conical roof, flanked by three-storey ranges with corner turrets, with a two-storey block at one end with a bow end, and at the other end a two-storey group of buildings including a single-storey bowed bath house, and a two-storey circular brew house with a conical roof. The entire elevation is adorned with square-headed, arched and cross windows, some within relieving arches, as well as machicolated cornices, string coursing, balustrading, crenelations and bartizans

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Another Design of Cullean Castle / for the Earl of Cassillis ~ / (verso) 1

Signed and dated

22/11/1784
Adelphi / 22.^d Nov.^r 1784

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (585x409)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 8
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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