SM Adam volume 39/21

[36] Design for a folly, 1783, unexecuted

Unfinished plan and elevation of a folly; with a three-storey central block, with a narrow canted tower with a conical roof on each corner; and with a pointed arch entrance on the ground storey, containing two trefoil-headed doors, and with three of the same shaped windows on the first storey, and two-light slit windows on the second storey; and with a pitched roof ornamented with crockets and a crucifix. The central block is flanked by one-and-a-half-storey, single-bay links containing pointed arched windows with two trefoil-headed lights; and beyond are two-storey, single-bay square towers, with a door on the ground storey surmounted by a quatrefoil oculus; and with bartizans and a pointed arched window in the roof containing two trefoil-headed lights; and the pitched roof is ornamented with crockets. Beyond these towers there is a single-storey, four-bay crenellated link wall with blind slit windows; and a two-storey, single-bay tapering circular tower with slit and cross windows; and beyond this there is a low boundary wall, with one arched doorway; connecting to a two-storey, segmental, ruinous building, with arched and slit windows and with a three-storey, single-bay square staircase tower to the right-hand side