[45] Design for an ice house

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Betchworth Castle (Surrey): alterations and additions to the house, designs for lodge, dairy, ice house, greenhouse and stables, 1798-1800 (68 )
    - Working drawings for an ice house, August 1798 (2)

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Reference number

SM 8/4/7

Purpose

[45] Design for an ice house

Aspect

Plans Sections & Elevations of / an Ice HouseThe Ground Plan, Plan at C-D (see Section), Elevation of the Front, Section A B See Plan, Section E F (see Plan)

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, The Ground Plan, Plan at C D (see Section), Elevation of the Front, Section A B See Plan, SectionE F (see Plan), Reference to Plan G D / G G are the Holes in the Section /marked G G / The Planks to be laid with spaces / between for the Water to Run off, A B, E F, G D, and dimensions given

Signed and dated

11/08/1798
(Copy) Lincolns Inn Fields Aug^st11 1798

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, red and yellow washes, shaded on wove paper with one old fold marks, recently re-backed (520 x 625)

Hand

Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808. The Soane office Day Book for 11 August 1798 gives [George] Mansfield and Seward as working on drawings for Betchworth Castle.
George Mansfield
Surveyor 1 May 1797 - December 1808.

Notes

The plan for the ice house is circular with a front that is triangular.
Filed with the drawing (other than designs for brew houses and water houses) is another design for an ice house (8/4/5-6) with the same practical cup and dome construction used at Betchworth. Soane published plans and sections for an ice house in Sketches in Architecture, 1793, plate XLIII

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Drawing

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