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  - Aynhoe Park, Northamptonshire: designs for alterations and additions for W.R.Cartwright, 1799-1802 ( 60)
    - Designs and working drawings made 1800 (24)

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Reference number

SM 6/4/2

Purpose

[55] Alternative new design for additions

Aspect

Plan of ground floor and surrounding area

Inscribed

W.R.Cartwright Esq^re, N^o 2, Plan of the Alterations of / The Ground Floor of Aynho, The dark teints are the old Building / The light teints are the New, labelled: Withdrawing Room / 33 by 22, Library / 26 ft Clear of Shelves, North Drawing Room / 33 by 22, Vestibule, Figures for lamps, and (old house) Eating Room, Great Stair, Servants / Stair, Billiard Room, Corridor, Closet, Gentlemans / Dressing Room, Saloon, M^r Cartwrights Room and (arrows labelled) Confined Views, Good View, GV (4 times), Bad View, Supposed Roadway, Screen Wall, Offices, Plantation and with a north point

Signed and dated

30/12/1800
Copy Lincolns Inn Fields Dec^r 30 1800

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia washes on wove paper (543 x 723)

Hand

There is no entry for Aynho in the Soane office Day Book for 30 December 1800. The hand is not that of Thomas Sword who drew drawing [54].

Notes

Labelled 'No 2' it is assumed that this design (copied on 30 December 1800) was made after drawing [54] (copied on1 Janaury 1801). Both drawings have the entrance on the west side and, oddly, it leads into the library which is flanked by a drawing room on either side. The new offices are simialrly partly detached from the house.

Level

Drawing

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