SM Adam volume 2/62

Design for a building and gate, 1786

Perspective drawing of a building with a two-storey, three-bay central block and a stepped entrance surmounted by a shield and swags and set within an ogee archway. The entrance is flanked by paired Doric columns and niches containing draped statuary. Beyond this there are giant Corinthian columns and three-quarter-height windows, with latticed window shutters. The windowsills have aprons of shields and swags. In the upper register there are half-height windows, with latticed shutters, and all the windows have moulded lintels. The central three bays have pitched, castellated roofs, which support crosses. At the ground-storey level there are central, stepped entrances flanked by plinths supporting recumbent hounds. The entrances are set within plain porticos, flanked by suspended lamps and surmounted by a plinth supporting a shield and swags. All this is set within ogee archways, with rosette roundels ornamenting the spandrels above. The archways are flanked by giant Doric pilasters, with rosette capitals. In the upper registers there are balustraded windows with latticed shutters and moulded lintels, and the balustrade is flanked by plinths supporting columns, which bear flag poles. Set within the eaves there and semi-circular-headed, tripartite windows. On the left-hand side of the building there is a Tuscan archway with a wrought-iron gate. Figurative roundels ornament the spandrels and there is a frieze of swags. The archway is surmounted by a fluted plinth, surmounted by a gadrooned urn, flanked by winged sphinxes. Beyond the archway there is a wall with narrow windows, with niches containing statuary set above. The wall is surmounted by pinnacles