SM Adam volume 41/1

[3] Finished drawing for the west front of a house and offices, c1782, unexecuted

Elevation of the west front of a two-and-a-half-storey, eleven-bay building, with a hipped roof and a sunken basement. At the basement-storey level there are quarter-height windows, and at the ground-storey level there is a central, stepped entrance flanked by balustraded, full-height windows, all set within a Corinthian colonnade. At the first-storey level there are half-height windows, and in the upper register there are half-height windows flanked by Doric pilasters. The building terminates in projecting, two-bay, part-rusticated blocks, with quarter-height windows at the basement-storey level, and full-height windows at the ground and first-storey levels. There are half-height windows in the upper register, and the blocks are surmounted by pyramidal roofs. The central building is flanked by curved, six-bay link blocks, with quarter-height windows at the basement-storey level, and three-quarter-height windows at the ground-storey level. The link blocks connect to part rusticated, one-and-a-half-storey, five-bay blocks with hipped roofs and a part sunken basement. The pedimented, projecting central three bays are articulated by Tuscan pilasters, and are surmounted by acroteria. At the basement-storey level there are quarter-height windows. At the first-storey level there is a central Venetian window flanked by three-quarter-height windows, with quarter-height windows in the upper register