SM Adam volume 31/14

[25] Finished drawing for the library, c1788, unexecuted

Elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, nine-bay building with a balustraded, hipped roof, surmounted by a drum supporting statuary and a spire surmounted by a weather vane. The spire contains a clock with a broken pediment, with a tier set behind an Ionic screen and an additional balustraded tier above. The central five bays of the building form a bow, with an arcade containing a stepped entrance at the ground-storey level. At the first-storey level there are full-height windows set behind a balustraded Corinthian colonnade. There are quarter-height windows in the upper register. The bow front is flanked by projecting, two-and-a-half-storey pavilions with balustraded, pyramidal roofs. At the ground-storey level there are three-quarter-height, tripartite windows, with balustraded Venetian windows above. In the upper register there are quarter-height, tripartite windows. The central building is flanked by two-storey, single-bay, curved link blocks surmounted by sphinxes. At the ground-storey level there are stepped, semi-circular-headed entrances, with colonnaded Tuscan windows above. The link bays connect to flanking two-storey, nine-bay buildings with balustraded, hipped roofs surmounted by stepped domes containing oculi. There are central, stepped entrances set within pedimented Corinthian porticos. At the ground-storey level there are full-height windows, with semi-circular-headed, balustraded windows at the first-storey level, and the windows are flanked by giant Corinthian pilasters