[21] Ground floor plan, 30 November 1808

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  - Whitley Abbey, Coventry, Warwickshire: designs for additions and alterations for 1st Viscount Hood, 1807-1810 (43)
    - Surveys and designs made in November and December 1808 (16-26)

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Reference number

SM 35/2/11

Purpose

[21] Ground floor plan, 30 November 1808

Aspect

General Plan of the Principal Floor

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, Plan for the Alterations and Improvemets / of / Whitley Abbey / the Seat of the Lord Hood, labelled Green House, Apple Room, For / Garden / Pots etc, Water Closet, Drawing Room, Best Staircase Library, Hall, Cloister, Porch, Eating Room, Passage to Offices, Common / Staircase, Plate Closet, Butler, Lord Hood's / Room, Lobby, Servants Dressg Room, Servants Hall, Housekeeper, Kitchen, Scullery,Lobby, Pantry, Larder, Shedsand dimensions given

Signed and dated

30/11/1808
Lincolns Inn Fields Nov^r 30^th 1808

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, double ruled and sepia wash border, pricked for transfer, on wove paper (525 x 725)

Hand

The office Day Book has Malton, Edwards and Underwood as working on drawings for Lord Hood

Watermark

J Whatman 1804

Notes

The is no surviving survey plan for the ground floor. A comparison with alternative designs made a year earlier ([12] and [13]) and inscribed designs '2' and '3' show [21] as having a more economical plan so that,for example, there is no breakfast room and the 'best staircase' is smaller. On the left-hand side are added a greenhouse, apple room etc and on the right-hand side are the offices.

Level

drawing

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