SM Adam volume 10/36

[5] Preliminary design for a building, c1787, unexecuted

Elevation of a three-storey, three-bay building, with a slight incline from right to left. The central bay contains a stepped entrance, flanked by semi-circular-headed windows, all set within a Doric portico. Above this there is a central balustraded window surmounted by a lunette, and set behind a bowed Corinthian screen. This is surmounted by a balustraded half-height, tripartite window, a pediment and a dome supporting statuary(?) In the first bay there is an alternative design, with full-height windows flanked by columns at the ground-storey level, and one-and-a-quarter-height windows at the first-storey level. This is surmounted by figurative roundels, three-quarter-height windows at the second storey level, and quarter-height windows in the upper register. In the third bay the ground-storey tripartite window is set behind a Doric screen. At the first-storey level there is a balustraded tripartite window, with an Ionic screen, with a figurative roundel above, all set within a relieving arch. This is flanked by paired giant Corinthian columns, and there is a frieze of rosettes and festoons. In the upper register there is a lunette window, flanked by Doric half-columns, and this is surmounted alternatively by a pedestal base and a pediment