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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - 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, 1784-85, unexecuted (3)

These drawings relate to Adam’s first proposal of altering the north elevation by removing the slanted block of offices and proposing a central rotunda to face the coast, whilst retaining his newly built brewhouse range and kitchen.

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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)

[42] Preliminary design for a castle-style tower, c.1784, unexecuted

[43] Design for a group of castle-style buildings, 1784, unexecuted

Adelphi / 22.^d Nov.^r 1784

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

SM Adam volume 37/9

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[44] Design for the ground floor of a castle-style building, 1785, unexecuted

29.^th July 1785 / Adelphi / 29.^th July 17

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

SM Adam volume 37/8

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