SM Adam volume 37/93

[5] Finished drawing for a house, c1785, unexecuted

Elevation of a three-and-a-half-storey, nine-bay block, with the central three bays forming an elongated arch. At the ground-storey level there are tripartite, quarter-height windows flanked by balustraded staircases. At the first-storey level there is a semi-circular-headed, balustraded entrance flanked by semi-circular-headed, balustraded windows. Above this there is a tablet ornamented with a crest flanked by festoons, and there is a Diocletian window, and all is set within a relieving arch. The arch is flanked by canted turrets, with quarter-height windows at the ground-storey level, and half-height windows at the first and second-storey levels. Above the canted bays, at the third-storey level there are tripartite, semi-circular-headed windows, with oculi above, and all this is set within relieving arches. The blocks are surmounted by castellated, pitched roofs bearing weather vanes and flanked by minor turrets with slit windows. To the left of the nine-bay block there is a three-and-a-half-storey, canted bay block, with a pitched roof. Beyond this there is a one-and-a-half-storey, three-bay, octagonal pavilion, with a conical roof. At the ground-storey level there are quarter-height windows, with full-height, semi-circular-headed windows at the first-storey level