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The present location of the site is Roehampton Lane, London SW 15.
Initially Soane made sketch designs for a new villa but soon turned to a series of proposals in which the steeply pitched roof was reduced in height, new wings were added, the entrance hall and the saloon were re-modelled and verandahs added to front and back elevations. It is not possible to exactly know what was executed but since the building costs were over £13,000 the alterations and additions must have been considerable. In terms of interior design those for the saloon and entrance hall make interesting use of draperies and stained glass - something new for Soane and perhaps owed to Henry Hake Seward to whom the relevant drawings have been attributed.
There is a related 'perspective view of a saloon' in the V&A collectiion, see P.du Prey, Sir John Soane, Catalogues of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985. p.72
Jill Lever, April 2016
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).
Contents of London: Cedar Court, Roehampton: alterations and additions for John Thomson, 1804-1807 (49)
- Sketch designs and unexecuted design for a new villa by Soane, May 1804 (7)
- Designs for alterations and additions to the existing house, June-July 1804 (8)
- Survey drawings, 27 February and 11 May 1805 (5)
- Designs for alterations and additions, February - December, 1805 (8)
- Designs for alterations and additions including verandahs, 1806 (5)
- Record drawings including plan of drains, 1807 (5)
- Designs for the saloon including curtains, February 1807 (5)
- Designs for screens for the entrance hall, April 1807 (6)