SM Adam volume 29/45

[7] Design for a house, c1770, unexecuted

Longitudinal section of a three-storey building with a hipped roof and a sunken basement storey. At the basement storey there is a central, barrel vaulted passage flanked by barrel vaulted rooms and further passages. Beyond this there are rooms with fireplaces. There is a lower basement-storey level in the western part of the building, and this contains a large, barrel vaulted room. On the ground storey there is a central room with a doorway set within a relieving arch. To the east there is a room with a central entrance surmounted by a cornice, and this is set within and apse and behind and Ionic screen. The room to the east has a coved ceiling. On the first storey there is a series of rooms with fireplaces, and in the attic-storey level there are further rooms with fireplaces. Flanking the central building there are two-storey, balustraded link blocks. The block to the east contains a spiral staircase, and there is a link passage on the first storey. The link building to the west contains a spiral staircase and a link passage, and the staircase extends to the lower basement storey of the principal building and the western pavilion. The pavilions have hipped roofs, and the pavilion to the east has a tripartite window on the first storey, and a central passage lit by a semi-circular window flanked by rooms in the attic storey. The pavilion to the west has a basement-storey level consisting of vaulted rooms. On the ground storey there is a Diocletian window flanked by half-height windows, and on the first storey there is a Venetian window articulated by Ionic columns. In the attic storey there is a central passage flanked by rooms