[135] Preliminary working drawing for the floor layout, 12-25 May 1801

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  - Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing, London: (executed) a house for John Soane and six unexecuted schemes for a villa at Acton, 1800-1832 (285)
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Reference number

SM 31/3/21

Purpose

[135] Preliminary working drawing for the floor layout, 12-25 May 1801

Aspect

Plan of the basement floor and out buildings, rough section of the villa, office court and office wing, section of floor levels and rough pencil sketches of the office wing entrance (from the courtyard)

Scale

bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

labelled D.D. query, Could not / these offices to be / made out of some / of the existing Building, Butler, Kitchen, wine cellar, Lobby, Housekeeper & Store Room, Passage, small beer, Pantry, Washouse & Laundry, cellar, Catacomb, Scullery, Dresser (twice), Iron[in]^g board, Larder, Eating Room, Laundery floor, Washouse floor, Cellar, office court, q[uer]y sheds for wood etc if wanted, bottles & charcoal, cleaning things, Dust hole, Ent[ran]^ce, pump, Bakehouse / & / Washouse / Q[uer]y if floor should not be lowered, apple, Cha, potatoes, onions, parsnips, carrotts, Beer & wine, Dry Gr[ound]., Wall nut tree, Stable house (twice), Drying Ground, Ground Gutter, Coachman / to / sleep over the / Coachouse, Gutter flat, Hayloft, 4 flat, 2 flat, Lodge, This idea about for the Courts, & gives more / Room to the / Room over / the Coach / making a hay loft at B / this may 25: 1801 and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

12 May 1801 - 25 May 1801
May 12: 1801 / May 22. 1801/ May 25: 1801

Medium and dimensions

Pen, brown pen, red pen, pencil, sepia and pale red washes, pricked for transfer, on wove paper (580 x 678)

Hand

Seward, Henry Hake (1778--1848), draughtsman
Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant 1794-1808) (Day Book 12 May 1801), Soane
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant 1794-1808) (Day Book 12 May 1801), Soane

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Drawing

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