[29] Alternative designs for the stables, January 1785

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Reference number

SM 28/2/17

Purpose

[29] Alternative designs for the stables, January 1785 - c. November 1785

Aspect

Incomplete plan and elevations inscribed (Sanders) Sketch of design for the stable Offices, Tendring Hall

Scale

1/8 inch to one foot (approximately)

Inscribed

as above, old Step / to the indent, Ro.[und] Arch (five times), semi[circular] (twice), Recess, indent, Single Cornice & fascia between the Pavilions, Floor of Basement Story, Stone to the indent / 3 in deep, Floor of Stables 9 inches above the / floor of the Basement Story / of the House, Stone (?) ^^houseto the Circular Wall, Ro. Arch and some dimensions given, (verso, Baldwin) Tendring Hall / Stable Offices

Signed and dated

datable to c. November 1785 (on comparison with SM 28/2/14)

Medium and dimensions

brown pen, pencil, hatching on cartridge paper with three fold marks (600 x 490)

Hand

Soane

Notes

The unfinished sketch design by Soane, datable to about November 1785, is a simpler and more economical design than SM 64/3/101 or SM 64/3/105. The courtyard is now a semicrcle with two single-storey buildings with pavilion ends, its design consonant with that of Soane's sketch scheme for the kitchen offices (SM 28/2/14). Plate 21 of the design for a stable court at Tendring Hall published in Soane's Plans, elevations and sections of buildings erected in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1788 (1789) shows it much as it appears on SM 64/3/101, that is, with a detached, rounded square plan. It is possible that the stables were carried out in a reduced form. Soane's account book (SM 'Journal N^o1', p.73) has an entry dated 29 February 1788 - 'Sent enclosed with some Nails from / Watkins drawing for Workmen / of Ground plan of Stables and / Elevations on a sheet of Cartridge / Paper'. On 10 January 1789, Soane 'Paid Nicholls on Acc^tof Slating to / the Stable --- 60' with a further sum of £40 on 18 February 1789. In October 1789 £94.0.0 was paid 'for Painting &c, to Stables'. In fact, the slating and painting may not have been for new work but the repairing of the old, existing stables.

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