(1) bar scale of 1/12 in to 1feet (2) bar scale of 1/6 in to 1 feet (approximately) (3) 1/15 in to 1 feet (4) bar scale of 1/10 in to 1 feet (5) bar scale of 1/15 in to 1feet

as above and (1) fully dimensioned and verso (Baldwin) M^r Dillingham / Plan of Offices (2) labelled essentially as the following drawing 3 and verso (Baldwin) M^r Dillingham / Plan of Coachouses & Stables (3) Stable Court / Ninety One Feet, Part of the Kitchen Garden, labelled: Gardeners Tools &c, Passage to the Stable Court, Saddle Horse Stable, Saddles &c, Passage to the Garden, Necessary, Dung Hole, Coachouse Stable, Hay Crib, Harness, Hack Horse Stable, Entrance, For Visitors Carriages, For warming / mashes &c for / the horses, Coachouse, Arched Entrance to the Stable Court / & occasionally a Coachouse, Coachmans room, Staircase to / Corn cham- / ber &c, For Carriages &c, Entrance, Hack House Stable, Hay crib, Saddles / &c, Saddle Horse Stable, Dung hole, Necessary (5) plan labelled as drawing 3

• (3) Nov^r 1783 - date of original drawing

(1) Pen and sepia washes, shaded, partly pricked for transfer on laid paper with three fold marks (573 x 469) (2) pen, sepia and light red washes, pencil, partly pricked for transfer on laid paper with three fold marks (614 x 518) (3) pen and sepia washes on laid paper (364 x 244), bound into 'Precedents in Architecture' SM volume 41 (4) pen, warm sepia and blue washes, shaded on laid paper (244 x 364) bound into 'Precedents in Architecture' SM volume 41 (5) pen, light pink, sepia, raw umber and blue washes, shaded on laid paper (457 x 273) in an album of 'Miscellaneous / Drawings' volume 59 (6) pen and sepia wash on laid paper (265 x 487) in an album of 'Miscellaneous / Drawings' volume 59

(1) Soane office hand (2) Robert Baldwin (fl. 1762-c.1804), verso, by Soane (3-4) John Sanders (pupil 1784-90) (5) unidentified pupil (6) unidentified pupil - not the same hand as drawing 5

(1) J Whatman and fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, ornate W (2) I Taylor, fleur-de-lis within scrolly cartouche with GR below (3-4) T French (5) Taylor (6) J Whatman

The unusual plan, broadly suggestive of a horseshoe, consists of a half-ellipse with a court 91 feet wide. The accommodation includes two coach houses, two carriage houses including one for visitors, and stalls for five carriage horses, 10 hacking horses and 14 riding horses. Accommodation for coachmen and grooms is not shown but is on the upper floors over the entrance gate and coach houses. The architecture is plain with round-arched openings, the entrance has a pedimented arch with niches on either side; placed on the centre of each arc, two smaller entrances have parapets with Venetian crenellation. On the verso of drawing 2, is a feintly drawn sketch design for a castellated entrance arch with turrets and battlements.
The original of a drawing dated November 1783 (for copies see drawing 3 and 4) was probably taken by Soane on his visit to Letton Hall of 24 November 1783 (noted in Gurdon papers, 1783-92). In the 'Precedents in Architecture' volume (SM 41/16 verso) there is a copy of a letter from Soane to B.G.Dillingham, dated 28 February 1784, dealing with the stable buildings, which begins 'Dear Sir / I am fearful you will be anxious about the Estimate[s], & am / exceedingly sorry that I have not had it in my power to send them / sooner.... The Garden Wall --- £410 / The three Stables & Coachouses --- 1120 / The other Stables &c in the Circular parts, the two detached Saddle / Rooms, Fence Walls &c --- 755 [total £] 1875 ... when I have the pleasure of seeing you, I can explain fully the several / particulars & possibly I may have supposed things necessary to be / done that may not appear so to you.'

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