SM Adam volume 31/18

[21] Alternative finished drawing for the library, 1788, unexecuted

Elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, eleven-bay, balustraded building, with rustication at the ground-storey level. The projecting central three bays are pedimented, with a ground-storey arcade containing a central, stepped entrance flanked by three-quarter-height windows. Above there is a raised, balustraded Corinthian portico, with a roundel flanked by swags set within the tympanum. At the first-storey level there are full-height windows, with semi-circular-headed windows and blank tablets set above. The portico is surmounted by acroteria supporting statuary and a belvedere containing a clock with a broken pediment. The belvedere contains quarter-height windows flanked by statuary and there is a frieze of swags and a ribbed dome supporting a further statue above. The central building terminates in three-storey, three-bay pavilions, with rustication at the ground-storey level and pyramidal roofs supporting weather vanes. There are three-quarter-height windows at the ground-storey level and at the first-storey level there are balustraded Venetian windows, flanked by balustraded full-height windows, with string courses and roundels above. In the upper register there are quarter-height windows flanked by truncated Doric pilasters. The central building is flanked by two-storey, single-bay link blocks surmounted by reclining sphinxes. There is rustication at the ground-storey level and stepped entrances. Above this there are balustraded Tuscan colonnades. The link bays connect to two-storey, nine-bay buildings with balustraded, hipped roofs and central stepped domes with oculi. There is rustication at the ground-storey level and central, pedimented Corinthian porticos containing stepped entrances flanked by full-height windows. At the first-storey level there are balustraded, semi-circular-headed windows flanked by Corinthian pilasters