[225] Working drawing, c.1822

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - London: Royal Hospital, Chelsea for the Board of Commissioners, 1807-1835 (226)
    - New Surgeon's apartments and Artificer's yard, 1818-22 and 1827 (4)

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Reference number

SM volume 48/4

Purpose

[225] Working drawing, c.1822

Aspect

Chelsea Hospital / Elevation of half of the Roof / to the Centre building of the / Surgeons' new apartments

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

as above, labelled rises in the Centre 3"½, centre and some dimensions given

Hand

Soane office

Notes

The Surgeon and Whitster were accommodated in one building (the Surgeon in grander and larger quarters). The arrangement of the building comprises a large central building with a pitched roof, flanked by wings with separate hipped roofs (with flat tops supporting chimneys). This drawing, with queen post structure, is for the roof over the centre part of the Surgeon's House, as the inscription indicates. SM 67/3/4 is probably for one of the side pavilions, which has a flat top.

The widths of the two elevations - (SM 67/3/4) around 38 ft, (this drawing) around 48 ft - support the suggestion that SM 67/3/4 is also for this building as the difference appears to correspond to the difference in width between the two side wing roofs and the central roof.

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Drawing

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