SM Adam volume 42/16

[3] Design for a school and almshouses, 1780, unexecuted

Elevation of a one-and-a-half-storey, nine-bay building with a hipped roof. The projecting, central three bays are two storeys in height and contain a Tuscan portico entrance with a frieze of fluting and rosette roundels, and this is flanked by semi-circular-headed windows on the ground storey. On the first storey there are three-quarter-height windows, and above this there is a blank tablet and a pedimented roof surmounted by a belvedere containing a clock and supporting a weather vane. The two bays flanking the central block contain tripartite windows on the ground storey, and on the first storey there is a string course and Diocletian windows. The building terminates in projecting single-bay pavilions which contain tripartite windows on the ground and first storey. The pavilions are surmounted by pyramidal roofs Below- Plan of the first storey of a nine-bay building. There is a central square room, with a projecting block to the rear which contains a staircase. The central room is flanked by passages linking to further rooms, and these are accessed by additional staircases in the left- and right-hand sides of the building