SM Adam volume 33/84

[4] Design for a house showing the principal front, 1789, unexecuted

Elevation of the principal front of a house, with a two-storey, three-bay central block with a hipped roof. There is a central bow on the ground floor, containing a door flanked by windows, and articulated by lotus-capital engaged columns, and the bow is surmounted by a balustraded balcony. The bow is flanked by tripartite pedimented windows on slightly projecting end bays. The first storey contains a central pedimented door onto the balcony, flanked by tripartite windows. The central block is flanked by single-storey, single-bay links containing arched doors, and with small portions of balustrading in the roofline, and beyond are single-storey, single-bay pavilions with pitched roofs, and each containing a tripartite pedimented window. There are two small fliers attached to the sheet: one showing the house without a bow and only a pedimented front door, and the other showing the links without any balustrading along the roofline. There are also pencil annotations showing a basic colonnade to the left-hand side of the sheet, and a chimney stack on the left-hand pavilion