[23] Design showing an elevation of the garden front, 1777, unexecuted

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  - Floors Castle, Kelso, Scottish Borders: unexecuted designs for the house and a gateway and cottage for the 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, 1772-77 (23)
    - Designs for a castle-style house (3rd scheme), 1777, unexecuted (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/24

Purpose

[23] Design showing an elevation of the garden front, 1777, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the garden front of a three-and-a-half-storey house, over a half-sunk basement with a central thermal or Diocletian window of depressed form, and with the central three bays forming a bow, with the principal storey containing an arcade within relieving arches, accessed by curving staircases, and the bow is flanked by single-bay circular towers, and surmounted by an additional storey, crenellations, and this is flanked by three crenellated bays, and a single projecting end bay to each side, again with an additional storey and crenellations, and with bartizans (verso) pencil-drawn elevation as recto but with a conical roof over the central tower, and pitched roofs between the bartizans

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Fleurs Castle for His Grace the Duke of Roxburgh / last Design (all in the hand of William Adam) (verso) 1 / 1

Signed and dated

15/11/1777
Adelphi 15th/ Novr. 1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (548 x 367)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 13
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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