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The kitchen is square in plan. It does not have the same plan as the kitchen shown on a survey drawing in the archives dated October 1802 (6/32/4) nor the existing kitchen plan in drawing 2:19 (SM volume 65/88). The hipped king-post roof as well as the arrangement of doors and windows also suggest that the room is in a different location. The drawings are for altering an existing kitchen, with a note that 'the kitchen is to be ceil'd to the Roof / all the old fixtures of every kind are / to be used again'.
A dresser occupies one wall, its wooden shelves increasing in depth as they rise in height. Opposite the shelves is a hearth measuring 5 feet 6 inches high and flanked by semicircular recesses with beaded moulding (a recognizably Soane motif).
The drawing on the right-hand side of the sheet shows an existing barn with alterations in pink wash. Alterations include the addition of two chimneys, a small room added on one side, and a partition down the centre. The doors and windows also have slight alterations, blocking up the entrance on one side and including blind windows on a plain wall.
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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Contents of Working and record drawings for finishings to the kitchen and alterations to the barn, one dated 6 July 1790 (3)
- [16] Working drawing for finishings to the kitchen and alterations to the barn, 6 July 1790
- [17] Record drawing for finishings to the kitchen and alterations to the barn
- [18] Record drawing for finishings to the kitchen and alterations to the barn