La Glorieta is a one-story adobe building with four wings enclosing a central courtyard.

The 1878 Ordnance Survey map gives the first known ground plan of Court Farm, this shows the original Vaughan L-shaped structure, with two wings enclosing a courtyard in the rear.

The building consists of a two-storey cube with a single-storey wing enclosing a 'secret' walled garden.

Laid out according to a basic plan, four wings enclosing a square courtyard with the church on the northern end, the main abbey spawned similarly arranged daughter priories.

The 1492 Collegium Maius on Jagiellonska Street, with four red-brick Gothic wings enclosing an arcaded courtyard, is the university's oldest building.

By 1900, the accommodation was already proving too small, and in 1914 it was decided to build a new wing enclosing the West Quadrangle, providing additional rooms and a Chapel.

A hut would have been understandable, maybe even a cottage-but this was a two-story Tudor house with wings enclosing a courtyard.

A quadrangle of four wings enclosing a vast courtyard of 10,000 sq m, the palace buzzed with masked balls, banquets and tournaments in the 16th century.

The building consisted of three wings enclosing an inner courtyard, flanked in the corners by round towers.

In 1638, Jones drew the designs for a new and massive palace at Whitehall in which his banqueting house was to be incorporated as one wing enclosing a series of seven courtyards.