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The kitchen is at the north-east corner of the house, with the large window facing the north front and the new wing extending to the east. Surveys of the kitchen from 1802 are in the archives (6/32/4 and 6/32/7). Such a configuration would also correspond with a ground floor plan in the archives dated 14 January 1815 (XIII.H.10).
Soane made alterations to Lady Bridport's kitchen while he was designing a monument for Viscount Bridport (q.v.).
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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.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).