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[7] Preliminary design for the principal front of the south building, c1784, unexecuted

Elevation of a two-and-a-half storey, thirteen-bay building with a balustraded, pitched roof, a central dome with an oculus, and a rusticated ground-storey level. The central three-bays of the ground-storey level form an arcade and at the first-storey level there is statuary set within balustraded niches, flanked by giant Corinthian columns. Above this there are figurative roundels. The central three-bays are flanked by two-and-a-half-storey, single-bay, pedimented pavilions, articulated by Corinthian columns. At the first-storey level there are balustraded aedicula windows, with roundels flanked by swags above. The pavilions have friezes of rosettes and the left-hand pavilion has a roundel set within the tympanum and is surmounted by acroteria supporting statuary. At the ground-storey level of the building there is a stepped entrance in the third bay and at the first-storey level there are balustraded, aedicula windows. In the upper register there is a string course of Vitruvian scroll and quarter-height windows. The building terminates in single-bay pavilions with raised, paired Corinthian columns. At the ground-storey level there is a tripartite window, with a balustraded aedicula window and a quarter-height window above