[2] Record drawing of an alternative design for the stables

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  - Mulgrave Hall, North Yorkshire: (executed) additions to the house and new outbuildings for 2nd Lord Mulgrave, c. 1786 (5)

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Reference number

SM volume 41/72

Purpose

[2] Record drawing of an alternative design for the stables

Aspect

Ground plan showing stables on a rectangular plan

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Lord Mulgrave

Medium and dimensions

Pen and grey and pink wash, on laid paper (364 x 244) bound into Precedents in Architecture SM volume 41

Hand

John Sanders (1768 -, pupil 1784-90)

Watermark

fleur-de-lis

Notes

SM volume 41/71 and SM volume 41/72 are alternative designs for the proposed stables and offices, also showing an outline of the proposed house. With its proposed additions, the house is on an elongated L-shaped plan, the west front being symmetrical with bow windows at both ends and the entrance front having an asymmetrical elevation with a semicircular portico. The offices and stables, in pink on both plans, extend to the north and are on axis with each other.

In SM volume 41/71, the stables are arranged on a semicircular plan, with three principal buildings arranged around a court approximately 81 feet 3 inches by 84 feet 6 inches. SM volume 41/72 has the stable ranges on a simpler rectilinear arrangement, consisting of three separate buildings. In both designs, entrances to the stables court bookend the south office range.

The offices in both drawings are on a rectangular plan; in SM volume 41/71 the offices are linked to the house.

Level

Drawing

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