Basic Site Details Name: | Culzean Castle Estate, Courtyard | City or county: | | Country: | | Parish: | | Status: | A listed | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Includes Castle Walls, Mortar Battery, Dolphin Arch and Coach Ring | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Estate building | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1790s | | Build/construction | | | 1829 | | Build/construction | Mortar battery |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionThe following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | | Robert Adam | | A | 1790s(?) | 1833 | May have drawn designs | | John Thin | | B | 1790s | | Possible attribution. Stylistic similarity to his work. | | Thomas White junior | | C | 1829 | | Concept of Mortar Battery attributed to White |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Close, Rob and Riches, Anne | 2012 | The Buildings of Scotland: Ayrshire & Arran | | New Haven and London: Yale University Press | p249 | | Fleming, J | 1968 | 'Robert Adam's Castle Style' | 143 | Country Life, 23 May 1968, pp1356-1369 | | | King, David | 2001 | The Complete Works of Robert & James Adam | | | | | Moss, Michael | 2002 | The Magnificent Castle of Culzean and the Kennedy Family | | Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press | | | Rykwert, J & A | 1985 | The Brothers Adam: The Men and The Style | | | | | Turnbull, Deborah | 1990 | Thomas White: 18th century Landscape Designer and Arboriculturalist | | Unpublished Phd thesis, University of Hull | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 51823 | | | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Drawings Collection | | Copies of Marquess of Ailsa drawings |
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