[15] Finished drawings for a castle-style house (3rd scheme), 1773, executed with minor alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Caldwell House, Beith, East Renfrewshire: executed and unexecuted designs for rebuilding the house for Baron William Mure, 1771-73 (18)
    - Designs and finished drawings for a castle-style house (3rd scheme), 1773, executed with minor alterations (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/70

Purpose

[15] Finished drawings for a castle-style house (3rd scheme), 1773, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Elevation of the principal (north) front of a three-and-a-half-storey, five-bay crenellated house, with a hipped roof, and a half-sunk basement. With the central three bays slightly projecting, with pepper-pot bartizans at the top corners, and with a relieving arch enclosing all of the windows in the central bay; and with a central tripartite door of arches in the ground storey accessed by tapering stairs, and with small segmental balconies at the windows on the first storey in the central and end bays, surmounted by a coat of arms, and within a relieving arch; and with further pepper-pot bartizans at the top corners of the block; and with full-height projections to either side

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Caldwell (in pencil) Principal Front of a New Design for Mr Baron Mure at Caldwell and some measurements given (verso) 1

Signed and dated

08/05/1773
Adelphi May 8t. 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (644 x 472)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 5
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Robert Adam's Castles, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 16 June - 16 September 2000

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