[5] Design for ground floor

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - Glasgow: 6 Buchanan Street for Robert Dennistoun, 1798-1800 (35)
    - Designs, December 1798 (19)

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Reference number

SM 2/8/3

Purpose

[5] Design for ground floor

Aspect

Plan of the Principal Floor

Scale

bar scale of ¼ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, N^o 2, N^o 2, Robert Dennistoun Esq^re, rooms labelled Hall, M^r Dennistoun's room,Store Closet, Butler, Closet, Library, To be finished with / Steps &c, Withdrawing Room, Eating Room, Area 10 ft wide and dimensions given

Signed and dated

24/12/1798
Copy Dec^r 24 1798

Medium and dimensions

Pen, red and grey washes, some pencil, pricked for transfer, on wove paper (488 x 620)

Hand

Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808. Entry in Soane office Day Book for above date.

Notes

A comparison with drawing [4] shows that the breakfast room has gone and in its place is a room for Mr Dennistoun and a store closet. The study is now the library and there is a drawing room at the rear with steps to the garden, and an eating room on the street side of the house. The house measures '49:7½' wide and '50:1½' deep excluding the area on the south side which is now shown with a five foot wide passage way to the rear and two single storey basement buildings.

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Drawing

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