SM Adam volume 41/50

[13] Survey drawing and design for a house, 1777, unexecuted

Above – Elevation of a three-storey, seven-bay building, with a hipped roof and a part-sunken basement. The central, projecting three bays are pedimented, and have a central stepped entrance, set within a single-storey, single-bay Doric portico. There is a plain string course at the first-storey level and half-height windows in the upper storey. The central block is flanked by five-bay wings, with the central three bays canted, and containing semi-circular headed windows Below – Elevation of a three-storey, seven-bay building as above, but with alterations. There is rustication at the ground-storey level, and the entrance portico is removed, with the stepped entrance set within a Doric arch. At the first-storey level, there is a central three-bay, balustraded, Ionic portico, with a roundel and festoons within the tympanum. The portico forms an Ionic screen with the end bays of the central block. The string course in the upper register is formed with a band of guilloche. Above this, there is a frieze of festoons and rosettes, and the building is surmounted by a balustrade, as are the flanking wings. The five-bay wings have additional ornamentation, with panels containing swags and rosettes set above the windows of the canted bay, and figurative roundels in the end bays