The principal front, which is broad relative to its height, has unfinished side-towers 105 and 110 ft. tall, begun in the 13th century.

The principal front of the main block faces south, with a porticoed gallery ending in octagonal tower blocks.

The house has a colonnaded verandah to its eastern garden front, and sandstone Tuscan portico to its eastern, principal front.

That on the principal front, the east, represented a local story (fig. 124).

The house was in the centre of the bridge with its principal front facing towards the Southwark end, the principal approach to the city of London from the south.

Eight sculptures with the height of 3,5 meters made of hammered blued copper are installed in the niches along the principal front.

Part of a network of such features, the Tyne Stop Line formed what would have been the principal defensive front for North East England against any attack coming from the north.

The principal front is the north, said to resemble the entrance front of Chiswick House.

The principal front, the west façade, was built in 1702.

The Architectural Magazine summarised Barry's winning plan as "a quadrangular pile, with the principal front facing the Thames, and a tower in the centre, 170ft.