[50] Design for the north front of a group of castle-style buildings, 1787, as executed

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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, 1787, as executed (13)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/1

Purpose

[50] Design for the north front of a group of castle-style buildings, 1787, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey castle-style building set within a clifftop landscape, with a central rotunda 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 tripartite windows and oculi, some within relieving arches, as well as machicolated cornices, string coursing, balustrading, crenelations and bartizans

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

North Front of Cullean Castle towards the Sea with the New Additions proposed / (in a different hand) for the Right Hon^ble Earl of Cassillis / (in a curator’s hand, in pencil) 1787 / (verso) Cullean Castle / 2 Elevations 2 Sections 3 Plans

Signed and dated

1787
datable to 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (592x474)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

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

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