[41] Working drawing for an octagonal dairy

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  - Betchworth Castle (Surrey): alterations and additions to the house, designs for lodge, dairy, ice house, greenhouse and stables, 1798-1800 (68 )
    - Designs for a dairy, 1798-1799 (9)

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Reference number

SM 65/1/11

Purpose

[41] Working drawing for an octagonal dairy

Aspect

Plan & Elevations of Dairyy and details of brick and flint work and of door opening at A

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Henry Peters Esq^r, Part at A, Part at B see Elevation, labelled 1 Course of Brick / flints flints / 1 Course of Brick / flints, line of wall, Brick / Brick / flints / Brick and dimensions given (verso) stamped GR / Duty crown / Paper 34S and (stamped) H / 3, 18718 1795 see also drawing [42]

Signed and dated

08/10/1798
Lincolns Inn Fields Oct^r 8 1798

Medium and dimensions

Pen, yellow ochre, sepia and red washes, shaded on stout wove paper with four fold marks (334 x 452)

Hand

Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808. The Soane office Day Book has Seward 'About Drawings of Dairy' on 8 October 1798.

Notes

Soane's pencil amendments to drawing [40] of a covered way between the dairy and the scalding room have been drawn out here - the four columns suporting a cistern preferred to an arch. Details for the doorway and for the flintwork with bands of brick are drawn out, and dimensions given.
For a note on the paper used see drawing [42].

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Drawing

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