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Huntwick Lane runs through the Huntwick estate: the land adjacent to Nostell, which had been purchased by the 2nd Baronet in 1667. At its heart is a ruinous seventeenth-century farmhouse. Williams has noted that Adam’s uncharacteristically old-fashioned design for the Huntwick Lodge bears a considerable resemblance to the surviving ruins at the Huntwick farmhouse, suggesting that Adam had intended the nearby gate and lodge as a complementary prelude to the existing structure.
Huntwick Lodge was executed with ashlar masonry rather than being rusticated, as shown in Adam’s design; with sculpted dogs rather than one lion and one dog. It is furnished with wooden gates which are now shown in the drawing.
There is a plan for the Huntwick Lodge within the private drawings collection of Lord St Oswald.
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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).