[17] Design 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 37/72

Purpose

[17] Design for a castle-style house (3rd scheme), 1773, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Elevation of the side (east or west) of a three-and-a-half-storey, three-bay crenellated house, with a hipped roof, and a half-sunk basement. With the central bay projecting, and containing a tripartite window on every storey; and with pepper-pot bartizans at each top corner

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

End Front. of a house in the Castle Stile for Mr Baron Mure / at Caldwell (of a house in the Castle Stile for Mr Baron Mure / at Caldwell in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) and some measurements given (verso) Mr Baron Mure

Signed and dated

08/05/1773
Adelphi May 8t. 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (598 x 488)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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