[7] Design for a peachery

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  - North Mymms Park, Hertfordshire: survey plan of house, designs for lodge house and peachery, 1795 & 1807 (7)

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Reference number

SM 8/3/45

Purpose

[7] Design for a peachery

Aspect

Plan of Peachery, Elevation, Longitudinal Section and Latidunal Section

Scale

to scale (two scales)

Inscribed

as above and The Duke of Leeds

Signed and dated

10/09/1795
Lincolns Inn Fields Sep^tr 10^th 1795

Medium and dimensions

Pen sepia, burnt umber pink and green washes on laid paper (530 x 418)

Hand

Soane office hand (Soane office Day Book lacking for this date)

Watermark

J Larking & fleur de lis above shield with bar and below, GR

Notes

The drawing for a peach house is one of fifty designs (kept in the same folder 8/3/1-50) for conservatories, greenhouses, hothouses, stoves for forcing fruit trees, pinerys, vinerys, a combined peachery, pinery and washouse, and a design for a vegetable garden. Some are designs by John Haverfield of Kew (1744-1820), others taken from W. Speechly's Treatise on the Culture of the Vine, 1795. Glasshouses were expensive to build because of the tax on glass and this seems to have been a large one (no scale is shown). It was to be built as a lean-to at an angle of about 45 degrees and has what are described (on other drawings) as flues and arches and is larger and more sophisticated than the smaller hothouses warmed by decomposing dung. The latitudinal section shows vines rather than peaches but perhaps this hothouse was intended for a mixed use.

Level

Drawing

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