SM Adam volume 37/32

[10] Design for the west front of a house and offices, c1776, executed with minor alterations

Elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, seven-bay building with a sunken basement and a balustraded, hipped roof. The basement storey has half-height windows, with the windows towards the front of the building set within relieving arches, and there is an entrance set within a relieving arch. The ground storey is rusticated and has three-quarter height windows, with those of the first, second and third bays forming a bow. The windows of the fourth, sixth and seventh bays are set within relieving arches, and the entrance is set within the fifth bay with a fan light above. On the first storey there is a bow front across the first, second and third bays, and the central window is set behind a wrought-iron balustrade. The full-height windows forming the bow are flanked by Ionic pilasters, with a frieze of rosettes and a balustrade above. The windows in the remaining bays are three-quarter height and are flanked by giant, fluted Corinthian columns. Above the first storey there is a string course in the form of a guilloche band, and at the second-storey level there are half-height windows with a frieze of rosette roundels above. To the north of the building there is a central gateway flanked by piers ornamented with friezes of fluting and supporting lanterns. The piers are flanked by link walls which are surmounted by wrought-iron pinnacles. The gateway terminates in archways containing windows. The archways are supported by Doric columns, with friezes of rosette roundels above. The spandrels are ornamented with panels containing figurative roundels, and the archways are surmounted by a balustraded pyramidal roof