SM Adam volume 29/31

[11] Finished drawing showing a plan of the basement and ground storeys, and an elevation of the principal front for the third scheme, c1777, unexecuted

Half-sunk ground and principal (first) storey plans for a house, and elevation of the principal (south) front, showing a two-and-a-half-storey, five-bay central block with a circular tower at the rear, forming a bow front, accessed on the principal floor by curving external stairs, and with an octagonal crenellated tower on the principal front, which rises another storey, and has a conical roof, and forms a canted bow, and with the central door and balustraded windows on the principal storey set within relieving arches, and the central block has bartizans on each corner, and it is flanked by one-and-a-half-storey, single-bay links, and two-and-a-half-storey, three- by five-bay wings with canted bows to front and rear, across the ground and principal storeys, and articulated by engaged circular columns in the form of miniature towers, and this is surmounted by the flat-fronted second storey, and a stepped cable roof, and with service rooms on the ground storey, and domestic and reception rooms on the principal storey, and with a kitchen in the left-hand wing, and a drawing room in the right-hand wing