[45] Design for a ground plan of a castle-style building, 1787, as executed

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/5

Purpose

[45] Design for a ground plan of a castle-style building, 1787, as executed

Aspect

Ground plan of a castle-style house comprising a central double-apsidal eating room with a grand staircase supported by piers to the rear and flanked by wings with corner turrets and principal rooms including a dressing room, study, hall and buffet room. Beyond the staircase is an additional range containing offices with a central rotunda divided into a servants' hall and second table room with apsidal ends. At one end is an adjoining kitchen with a bow end. 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 with additions & alterations / North to the Sea / (and in the hand of William Adam) for the Right Hon^ble Earl of Cassilles / (in a different hand) Dressing room / Study / Eating room / Buffet room / Hall / Passage / Butlers Pantry / Principal Stairs / Powdering room / Water / Closet / Passage / House keepers room / Store room / Back stairs / Lobby / Servants Hall / 2.^d Table room / Larder / Scullery / Hall & Offices / Door / Water Closet / Passage from the Brewhouse Offices to the Kitchen & Stables / Principal entry from the great Court, east of the Castle / South Terrace / West to the Cow pasture. with some room dimensions (verso) 5

Signed and dated

4/5/1787
4.^th May 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink wash on laid paper (496x355)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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