SM Adam volume 37/67

[1] Design for the ground floor of a castle-style house, outhouses and stables, 1790, unexecuted

Ground floor plan comprising a Y-shaped building with four flanking blocks linked by corridors and screen walls bound by a semi-circular range connecting to the inner two blocks. The Y-shaped building has two projecting wings to the front with an enclosed porch and semi-circular entrance ramp. On the longest range are a series of turret stairs and windows, terminating in two circular towers. Rooms include bedrooms, dressing rooms, a hall and an eating room. The connecting blocks comprise a large room or space flanked by two smaller rooms with corner turrets and are linked by bowed walls enclosing a yard. Those on the left include the brew house, kitchen, bake house and wash house whilst those on the right include stables, coach houses, saddle rooms and harness rooms. The semi-circular range contains a mixture of outhouse rooms including a dairy, garden room, green house and stable for sick horses. This range is bound by a screen wall with an inner passage with five openings which open onto an enclosed yard. The coloured washes denote different materials. Above the plan, on reverse, is a water colour of two men rowing down a river