SM Adam volume 33/43

[23] Preliminary design for a rectangular house, 1771, unexecuted

Elevation of a three-storey, crenellated house, with a the central three bays containing a central arched door in the ground storey, surmounted by a two-storey, five-bay circular tower, and this is surmounted by a single-storey, three-bay circular tower, and the central bays are flanked by three-and-a-half-storey, three-bay canted towers. Beyond this central portion are links of four bays to either side of a central projecting portion, on the right-hand side this projecting portion contains a tripartite window on each storey, and has a pepper-pot turret at each top corner, and on the left-hand side the projecting portion is three bays wide, with a central arched window on the ground storey, flanked by projecting square towers, each of which is surmounted by a small conical turret. Beyond the links are wings, and on the right-hand side the wing is composed of a central five-bay bow, flanked by four-storey, three-bay circular towers, and on the left-hand side the wing is composed of three bays flanked by four-storey, three-bay canted towers, with conical roofs