SM Adam volume 29/55

[4] Design for the north east front of a castle, c1782, unexecuted

Elevation of an eleven-bay building with a part-sunken basement and a raised ground-storey level. The castellated central five bays form a two-and-a-half-storey rotunda, and this is surmounted by a conical roof bearing a weather vane. At the ground-storey level the rotunda has a balustraded arcade with a central semi-circular-headed entrance flanked by semi-circular-headed windows set within. The entrance is accessed via a pair of curved staircases forming and arch, with balustrades ornamented with square panels enclosing rosettes(?) At the first-storey level there is a frieze of fluting and of tablets ornamented with lozenges enclosing quatrefoil, with half-height windows above. In the upper register there is a band of rosettes and quarter-height windows, with a band of fluting above. The central rotunda is flanked by narrow bays, with quarter-height windows at the basement storey level, and narrow, balustraded, full-height windows set within relieving arches at the ground-storey level. At the first-storey level there are narrow, half-height windows, with a band of fluting and cross-shaped windows above. Beyond this there are two-storey, single-bays, with quarter-height windows at the basement-storey level. At the ground-storey level there are balustraded, full-height windows, with string courses of fluting and half-height windows above. The building terminates in two-and-a-half-storey, single-bay, square turrets. The turret to the north is surmounted by a pyramidal roof. At the basement-storey level the turrets contains Diocletian windows, with balustraded narrow windows set within relieving arches at the ground-storey level. Above this there is a frieze of lozenges enclosing quatrefoil, and narrow half-height windows and quarter-height windows set within relieving arches, with bands of rosettes set in between