The National History and Shews of London with its Environs (1825):
The principal naval affairs of great Britain are transacted in this public office. The length of the building in 201 feet and the breadth 63; the east wings are 30 feet each, and the height 54 feet. The Lords Commissioners of the admiralty removed there in September 1725. The architecture cannot be commended with justice as the proportions are incorrect. The portico, composed of four stone pillars of the ionic order, supporting an entablature and pediment seems as it were thrust between two rejecting brick wings in a most incongruous manner; nor is the screen erected by Mr Adam in 1760 any great improvement. In short, the whole front is an enormous mass of inelegance. The front next the park is without ornament, but well executed in brick. The semaphore on the roof has a singular effect when in motion.
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