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Inscribed
(Sanders) Plan and Elevations of the Offices at Tendring Hall, labelled (? Baldwin) Section on the Line F.G., E.E. if the flues are brought / over from the Office building / into the West Wall of the / House in the walls E E they are to / be 1:10½ thick if the flues / cannot be in them, then / they are to be 1.1½ thick, Ga:[uged] Arch, Ro:[und] Arch (twice), Sett off to the house, Floor of the Room of the Basement Story of the House, Floor of the Room B.B.D, Paving in Court C, Floor of the Chambers over the Rooms &c BB, Floor of Room A, Level of the Ground in the North front, Leave two flues, To be covered with blue Pantiles, Pump, Supposed line of the Ground in its / present state, Ground in its / present state, (plan) No room over this, Leave two flues, Wood col:[umn] (twice),1.10½ for the flue and dimensions given (verso, Baldwin) Tendring Hall / Kitchen Offices / According to the first Design
Signed and dated
Medium and dimensions
pen, light red and sepia washes, pencil on coarse laid paper with three fold marks (604 x 494)
Hand
Baldwin ?
Notes
The inscription on the verso states that this scheme for the kitchen offices is 'according to the first Design'. The ill-spaced out drawing with carefully added dimensions was made by Baldwin at a stage between January 1784 when SM 28/2/3 and SM 28/2/4 were made and 1785 when drawings SM 28/2/18 and SM 28/2/16 were made. So that this drawing (SM 28/2/14) has, for example, the shallower, semicircular court and narrow detached building of the later designs. The east elevation towards the house has the columned, loggia-like front indicated on drawings SM 28/2/3 and SM 28/2/4 and not executed.
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