SM Adam volume 2/138

Design for a cottage, 1790

Above – Elevation of a one-and-a-half-storey, five-bay building with a hipped, thatched roof supporting weathervanes, and there is a central, three-bay rotunda with a conical, thatched roof. At the ground-storey level there is a central entrance, surmounted by an oculus and all set within a relieving arch. This is flanked by open arches, all set behind a part-fluted, Tuscan colonnaded screen. The screen has a frieze of rosette(?) roundels and in the upper register of the rotunda there are quarter-height, leaded windows. The rotunda is flanked by one-and-a-half-storey, single-bay wings, with three-quarter-height, leaded windows at the ground-storey level. In the upper register there are semi-circular-headed, leaded windows, set beneath the eaves Centre- Plan of a five-by-one-bay building, with a central, projecting rotunda in the principal front. Beyond the rotunda there is a curved staircase. This is flanked by one-bay wings, with pitched roofs Below- Plan of a five-by-one-bay building, with a central rotunda in the principal façade, forming a three-bay bow. The rotunda is flanked by one-bay rooms and to the rear of the rotunda there is an additional space with a central stairwell(?)