SM Adam volume 31/3

[10] Finished drawing for the rear the south building, 1784, unexecuted

Elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, thirteen-bay building with a balustraded, pitched roof and a central, stepped dome with an oculus. The drum supporting the dome contains oculi windows and is ornamented with a frieze of swags and rosettes. The central five bays are projecting and there is a bow front in the middle three bays. At the ground-storey level the bow front contains Venetian windows and this is flanked by three-quarter-height windows set within relieving arches with fanlights above. Above the windows in the central five bays there are ornamental panels containing urns flanked by half-putti and arabesques. In the upper register there is a string course of guilloche and quarter-height windows, with a frieze of fluting and rosettes above. The flanking bays contain balustraded aedicula windows at the first-storey level and quarter-height windows in the upper register. The building terminates in two-and-a-half-storey, single-bay, balustraded pavilions, with rustication at the ground-storey level. At the first-storey level there are balustraded Ionic screens set within relieving arches. The screens have friezes of swags and rosettes and the head of the arches contain oculi flanked by festoons. The columnar screens are flanked by giant Corinthian pilasters, with a frieze of fluting and rosettes above