[1] Record drawing of designs for a greenhouse and garden wall

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  - Beauport, East Sussex: greenhouse for General Murray, 1786 (1)

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Reference number

SM volume 41/68 verso

Purpose

[1] Record drawing of designs for a greenhouse and garden wall

Aspect

Elevation and plan of the greenhouse; elevation and plan of garden entrance

Inscribed

Gen^lMurray, Garden Wall, Design for Entrance to Garden at Beauport Sussex, Brickwork (four times), stone, open, stone, 10 feet (twice), 15 feet, 30 feet, 15 feet, Leave this opening like / one of the in front & perhaps / bricked up afterwards, Garden Wall, Design for the greenhouse at Beauport Sussex, brickwork (five times), stone (three times), 15 feet, 5 feet, 10 feet, and dimensions given

Signed and dated

1900
Initial sketch
1901
Annotations
1902
Basis for print

Medium and dimensions

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

Hand

John McDonnell (1770 -, pupil, 18 March 1786-91)

Notes

The greenhouse is attached to the garden wall and measures 30 by 15 feet. The front elevation has three round arches springing from brick piers. The brick pediment has stone accents on the raking cornice, springing and base. Both side elevations have a single arch. A note on the drawing suggests that one of the arches, presumably that facing north, is left open '& perhaps bricked up afterwards'.

Soane supplied General Murray with designs for a greenhouse in 1786, charging £15 15s 0d. In 1787, he surveyed the house and made drawings for alterations and in 1790 he made designs for an obelisk, charging £16 16s 0d for these works. Soane did not supervise any building works and it is unknown whether the designs were executed.

Literature

D. Stroud, Sir John Soane Architect, 2nd ed., 1996, p. 245; P. Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p. 176.

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Drawing

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