SM Adam volume 29/42

[4] Design for a house, c1770, unexecuted

Elevation of the south front of a three-storey, five-bay building with a hipped roof and a three-bay, pedimented portico articulated by fluted Corinthian columns. The balustraded portico is raised on a ground-storey arcade, with half-height windows set within and a band of Vitruvian scroll above. On the first storey the portico contains a central, pedimented entrance, and this is flanked by pedimented, full-height windows and is accessed via curved, balustraded staircases. The portico has a frieze of fluting and a central tablet ornamented with calyx flanked by arabesques and rosettes. Set within the tympanum there is a roundel flanked by olive branches, and the portico is surmounted by acroteria supporting statuary, including the figure of Hercules on the right-hand side. Flanking the portico, at the first-storey level, there are balustraded, Venetian windows articulated by Ionic columns. On the second storey the building has half-height windows, and there is a frieze of arabesques supporting anthemia, with a band of dentils above. The central building is flanked by two-storey, three-bay, balustraded link buildings. The link buildings contain central entrances flanked by niches containing urns and all set within apses. The apses are ornamented with friezes of rosette roundels and festoons, and have coffered ceilings ornamented with rosettes. Flanking the apses there are half-height windows at the ground-storey level, three-quarter-height windows on the first storey, and tablets ornamented with fret set in between. The link buildings connect to two-storey, three-bay pedimented pavilions surmounted by acroteria supporting statuary. On the ground storey the pavilions contain Diocletian windows flanked by half-height windows, with bands of Vitruvian scroll above. On the first storey there are balustraded, Venetian windows. The central windows are flanked by niches containing statuary, with figurative tablets set above. The pediments are articulated by Ionic columns, with capitals containing rosette roundels and friezes of fluting. Set within the tympana there are roundels depicting ox masks, and the roundels are flanked by festoons