[47] Designs for the first floor of a castle-style house, 1787, executed in part

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/6

Purpose

[47] Designs for the first floor of a castle-style house, 1787, executed in part

Aspect

Principal (first) floor plan of a castle-style house comprising a central drawing room with a grand staircase supported by columns to the rear and flanked by wings with corner turrets and principal rooms including a dressing room, bed chamber, drawing room and ante room. Beyond the staircase are additional principal rooms including a library, vestibule and bed chamber, with a central rotunda containing a saloon. 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 one pair Story / (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) of Callean Castle for / The Right Honorable Earl of Cassilles / (in a different hand) Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Drawing room / Drawing room / Anti room / Water / Closet / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Water / Closet / Powdering / room / Anti room / Vestibule / Saloon / Anti room / Water / Closet / Library / (in pencil) One pair with some room dimensions

Signed and dated

4/5/1787
4.^th May 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink wash on laid paper (311x493)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J WHATMAN

Notes

The proposed library in this plan was never executed. This part of the house was completed in the early eighteenth century by the first Marquess of Ailsa and comprised a bedroom named the ‘Royal Suite’.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 8
Harris, 2002, p. 327
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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