SM Adam volume 45/78

[1] Finished drawing for a house, unexecuted, 1783

Ground plan and elevation of the principal front of a house with a central block, links and pavilions. The central block is a two-and-a-half-storey, three-bay block, with a hipped roof and a central chimney stack; with a central door behind a single-storey, single-bay portico of paired Doric columns, surmounted by a door on the first storey, giving access to a balcony formed by the balustraded roof line of the porch below, and this window is surmounted by a sculpted fan and set within a relieving arch; and the central bay is flanked by projecting bays with arched windows on the first storey, and half-height windows on the second storey, and surmounted by sculpted sphinxes; and the second storey is ornamented with four paterae. The plan shows that the central block contains a staircase in the front left-hand corner, two reception rooms, and has tripartite windows to the sides and rear, and with a projecting bay on each side. The central block is flanked by single-storey, three-bay open arcaded links, articulated by paired Doric pilasters; and beyond are one-and-a-half-storey, single-bay pavilions, with pyramidal roofs, each with a window within a relieving arch, and with brew house, bake house and washhouse in one pavilion, and a study or book room in the other