The richly moulded and dentilled entablature projects above the hermed pilasters and central tablet, which depicts a serpentined cartouche with shell-and-acanthus enrichments festooned with ribbon-tied oak. The acanthus-scrolled frieze terminates in voluted scrolls above tapering pilasters, which are fronted by veil-draped nymph-herms tied with palms and Roman acanthus and terminating in a flowered-ribbon guilloche. The Roman herm pattern, in the manner of Inigo Jones, derives from the Houghton Hall chimneypiece of the 1720s designed by William Kent (d. 1748) and illustrated in F. Hoppus, The Gentleman and Builder's Repository, 1737 (pl. LVI), while the tablet decoration relates to another Hoppus engraving (pl. LII). The chimneypiece is likely to have been commissioned by Stephen Croft (d. 1798) for the Palladian mansion Stillington Hall, that he built in Yorkshire in the mid-18th Century.