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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Betchworth Castle (Surrey): alterations and additions to the house, designs for lodge, dairy, ice house, greenhouse and stables, 1798-1800 (68 )
    - Designs for stables, August 1798-May 1799 (12)

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Reference number

SM 64/4/71

Purpose

[66] ? Close to final design

Aspect

Plan of the Stables &c

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, Henry Peters Esq^r and A B

Signed and dated

00/06/1799
Lincolns Inn Fields June 1799

Medium and dimensions

Pen and Indian red wash with quadruple ruled and black and sepia washed border on laid paper(518 x 709)

Hand

Attributed to Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808.

Notes

This plan has in the centre an entrance (framed on each side by a slender column) that gives on to a court or yard that accesses the five stalls to each side. Beyond is a room with a fireplace and two windows and a side room with one window. In front of this central block are two identical detached wings for coach houses, saddle and tack rooms, hay and two water closets.
The drawing with its neat pen and wash border may have been intended as a presentation drawing for Mr Peters.

Level

Drawing

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