[44] Design for the ground floor of a castle-style building, 1785, unexecuted

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

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/8

Purpose

[44] Design for the ground floor of a castle-style building, 1785, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground plan of a castle-style house comprising a large eating room with two staircases to the rear and flanked by wings with corner turrets and principal rooms including a dressing room, library, hall and buffet room. Beyond the staircases is an additional range containing offices with a central rotunda divided into a servants' hall and second table room. At one end is an adjoining kitchen with a bow end, and at the other end is an additional range containing a maid’s room, dressing room, bath, bake house and a circular brew house. The different coloured wash denotes the proposed (pink) and existing (black and grey) fabric

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground Story of Cullean Castle / The parts shaded red are the additions & alterations / (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) for the Earl of Cassilles[sic] / (in a different hand) 2^d Design / Bake house / Brew house / Bath / Dressing room / Maids room / Closet / Housekeepers room / Store room / Passage / Powder.^g room / area / Strong room / Dressing room / Library / Closet / Eating room / Closet / Buffet room / Hall / Butlers Pantry / Area / Stairs / Servants Hall / 2^d Table room / Larder / Scullery / Kitchen / (in pencil) This Plan does not [_ _ _] the / [_ _ _ _ _/ _ _ _ _] but it is [_ _ _ _ _] to shew / the [_ _ _ _ _] of the [_ _ / _ _ _ _] to [_ _ _] / [ _ _ _] the kitchen with some room dimensions / (verso) 8 / Cullean Castle / Earl of Cassilis / (in a different hand) number 1 / (in a curator’s hand) ADAM Vol 37/8

Signed and dated

29/7/1785
29.^th July 1785 / Adelphi / 29.^th July 17

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink coloured wash on laid paper (578x449)

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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