SM Adam volume 33/36

[36] Preliminary design for a banqueting house, 1785, unexecuted

Plan and rear elevation of a rectangular crenellated building, with a two-and-a-half-storey central block, with three slit windows in the ground storey, surmounted by a tripartite window within a relieving arch on the first storey, and flanked by circular towers, with windows within reliving arches on the ground storey, surmounted by arched windows, and cross-shaped slit windows at the top, and the central block is surmounted by an additional half-storey square tower, with a pyramidal roof, and three oculus windows. The central block is flanked by two-storey, single-bay links, with slit windows in the ground storey, and windows within relieving arches on the first storey, and beyond are two-storey, single-bay circular towers, with windows within relieving arches on the ground storey, surmounted by an arched window, and with a cross-shaped slit window above, and from the plan it is possible to see that there is a porte cochère on the principal front, composed of a curved roadway, on the far side of which from the building is a screen wall flanked by circular towers