SM Adam volume 46/91

[3] Drawing for publication showing a design for a house, 1783, unexecuted

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 two chimney stacks, with a central door behind a single-storey, single-bay, balustraded 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 and balustraded windows within relieving arches on the ground storey, rectangular balustraded 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 back left-hand corner, two reception rooms, and has slightly projecting end bays on the garden front, and projecting bays on each side. The central block is flanked by single-storey, seven-bay links, containing an open five-bay Doric colonnade, with niches visible in the rear wall; and beyond are one-and-a-half-storey, single-bay pavilions, with pyramidal roofs, each with a window within a relieving arch