[1] Preliminary design for additions to a building in the castle-style, c.1791, unexecuted

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  - Castle Semple, Renfrewshire: designs for additions to an existing castle for William McDowall of Garthland, c.1791, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/182

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for additions to a building in the castle-style, c.1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan (in part) and elevation of additions to an existing building in the castle style. The whole building comprises part of an old quadrangular building with a new range at one end, with corner circular towers. There is a central rotunda, containing a drawing room, flanked by two apsidal-ended rooms with corner circular turrets, followed by double-apsidal rooms containing a library and drawing room with central bows. The elevation is adorned with a mixture of arched and square-headed windows, some within relieving arches, as well as oculi, string coursing, crenelations and machicolated cornices

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Willm McDowall Esqr / Old House / Powd / room / Water / Closet / Stairs / Library / Privy / Anti / - / room / Drawg room / Eating room / Butlers / Pantry / Plate with some room dimensions, and some calculations in pencil

Signed and dated

c.1791
datable to c.1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (316x199)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

T FRENCH

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 6
King, 2001, p. 161
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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