SM Adam volume 37/98

[6] Alternative design for a house, c1785, unexecuted

Elevation of a three-storey, eleven-bay building, with a part-sunken basement. The central three bays are projecting, with quarter-height windows at the basement-storey level. At the ground- and first- storey level there are three-quarter-height windows, with half-height windows at the second-storey level, and these are set within relieving arches. In the upper register there are cross-shaped windows, and these are flaked by minor turrets with slit windows. The flanking three bays are two storeys in height, with projecting porticos at the ground-storey level. The left-hand portico contains a stepped entrance, the right-hand portico contains a window, and both are set within relieving arches flanked by turrets containing slit windows, with cross-shaped windows above. The first-storey level contains lancet windows. The building terminates in projecting, square turrets with quarter-height windows at the basement-storey level, full-height windows set within relieving arches at the ground-storey level, and three-quarter-height windows at the first-storey level. At the second-storey level there are half-height windows, and the turrets are surmounted by castellated, pitched roofs bearing weather vanes, and flanked by minor turrets with slit windows