[49] Working drawing

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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 )
    - Design for a greenhouse, May 1800 (7)

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Reference number

SM 8/3/46

Purpose

[49] Working drawing

Aspect

Half-plan, elevation, section and full size detail

Scale

5/12 inch to 1 foot and FS

Inscribed

Henry Peters Esq^r, Betchworth Castle, The Greenhouse, N^p 1, No Horizontal Bars to be in the / Roof Lights, Stone Cill, The front Sashes to be Ooole (?) / with a ¾ Bar / Bottom part of Door to be bead flush / both sides, The front Sashes open as a / door, see drawing N^o 3, F F E, The dotted line E shews the / Outside edge of the Cornice / F.F. &c Blocks, Section of the top plate &c taken at / the Pilaster, Iron, A, Pilaster / Sash / Pipe, Section, Capping / Rabit of Sash / Rafter, D B C B, BB Plates 9" wde in the Brickwork / conncected with the plate D by an Iron / at the Angle / C Iron at the back of the Arch to connect / the Plate B B and dimensions given

Signed and dated

00/05/1800
Copy Lincolns Inn Fields May 1800

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, yellow and pink washes on wove paper with one fold mark (555 x 680)

Hand

Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808.

Notes

The half-plan has three and a half glazed sides so that the complete plan would be eight-sided with one longer brick wall with an entrance and seven glazed sides, two of them with 'sash[es] to open as a door'.

Level

Drawing

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