SM Adam volume 31/7

[14] Finished drawing for the south building, 1784, unexecuted

Axial section of a three-storey building with a sunken basement level. There is a raised, pedimented Corinthian portico across the principal front, with rustication at the ground-storey level, a frieze of fluting and capitals containing rosettes. The pediment is surmounted by acroteria supporting statuary and there is a balustraded roof set behind. Flanking the portico there is a first-storey balustraded Corinthian colonnade with niches containing statuary. Access to the colonnade is via an aedicula entrance, with a guilloche string course and a figurative roundel above. Beyond this there is a dome containing an oculus. Within, at the basement storey level, there are barrel-vaulted rooms. At the ground-storey level there is a double-height, circular room with a domed ceiling. The room has a central doorway, Venetian windows, and a colonnade of raised Tuscan columns with a frieze of rosette roundels. The columnar screen is set within relieving arches and is surmounted by busts. Above there are panels ornamented with anthemia and calyx, with aprons of beaded festoons and ram skulls. The room has a frieze of rosettes and a frieze of scroll work enclosing anthemia. The dome ceiling is ornamented with a band of Vitruvian scroll and a central patera set within a fan. At the second-storey level there is a further circular room with a domed ceiling containing an oculus. The room contains a chimneypiece ornamented with drop calyx and set within a relieving arch. The chimneypiece is flanked by a doorway and an oculus window also set within relieving arches articulated by Doric pilasters