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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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  - Ramsey Abbey, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire): alterations and additions for W.H.Fellowes, 1804-07 (60)
    - Plans for basement, 4-7 June 1804 (5)

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Reference number

SM 46/5/24

Purpose

[13] Design

Aspect

Plan of the Basement Story with alterations & improvements and pencil detail of joint

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, W. H. Fellowes Esq^re , labelled Strong & small / Beer cellar, Larder, wine cellar, Servants hall, Butlers room Housekeepers / room, strong / closet, Store room, Entrance, passage, Lobby, Coals, Earth, C.D. determines the / width of A B, A B C D and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

05/06/1804
Copy / Lincolns Inn Fields / June 5^t^h : 1804

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and red washes, pricked for transfer, on laid paper (556 x 673)

Hand

Soane office

Notes

All of the basement plans show the extension added to the right-hand (west) side. The room labels vary so that the extension some times houses rooms for the butler and housekeeper or a kitchen or a laundry. Eventually, a single storey kitchen and scullery etc was added on to the full-storey western extension (see drawings [26],[53], [54], [56]).

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Drawing

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