[63] Alternative design No.2 for alterations to ground floor

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  - Port Eliot, St German's, Cornwall: remodelling of interior and designs for new stables for 2nd Lord Eliot, 1804-6 (97 )
    - Designs for alterations, November 1804 (8 )

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Reference number

SM 34/2/9

Purpose

[63] Alternative design No.2 for alterations to ground floor

Aspect

Plan of the Principal Floor with Alterations, N^o 2

Scale

bar scale of 1/12 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, The Lord Eliot, Chamber, Library, Anti Room, South Vestibule / or / Entrance, Lord's / Dressing / Room, Chamber, Ladys / Dressing Room, Eating Room, Anti Room, Withdrawing Room, Saloon & Gallery, (pencil) Library, Hall, Dressing Room, upper Part / of Kitchen

Signed and dated

12/11/1804
Copy / Nov^r 12^th 1804

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, pricked for transfer on laid paper (342 x 568)

Hand

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

Notes

Design No. 2 differs from No. 1 in the treatment of the stairs and in the additions to the north side. Also where No.1 has a billiard room in the centre of the south side, in design No.2 an entrance was proposed. The library is differently located in the two designs. The idea for an enfilade from west to east is maintained in both designs and was carried out.

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