SM Adam volume 29/25

[8] Finished drawing showing an elevation of the principal front for the first scheme, c1777, unexecuted

Elevation of the principal (south) front of a house, as Adam volumes 29/27-30, showing a two-and-a-half-storey, thirteen-bay central block, with the central five-bays projecting, with a three-bay bow which is crenellated and extends as a circular tower into an additional storey, and the end bays of the central blocks are also slightly projecting, and rise an additional half-storey, and are surmounted by half-storey circular towers, and the recessed bays in between contain windows behind an arcade, and the first-storey central door and windows on the principal storey of the projecting bays are within relieving arches, and there is a curving porte cochère across the front, and the central block is flanked by one-and-a-half-storey, single-bay links, and three-storey, three-bay wings, with canted bow fronts up to the level between the first and second storeys, and articulated by large engaged columns in the form of circular towers, and this canted portion is surmounted by three bays of flat front supporting a stepped gable containing a window, and with a small, single-bay crenellated tower to one side