[16] Design drawing for addition and alterations including new eating room, ante-room and east front, 26 July 1796

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  - Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, London: (possibly executed) stables, (executed) drawing room wing, offices, and (unexecuted) alterations, for the Countess of Pembroke, 1788 (17)

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Reference number

SM 29/3/12

Purpose

[16] Design drawing for addition and alterations including new eating room, ante-room and east front, 26 July 1796

Aspect

Plan of the Ground Floor with alterations

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot, approximately

Inscribed

as above, The Countess of Pembroke, Porch, Vestibule / 11'11" by 19'0", Eating Room / 18'0" by 20'0", Anti Library / 18'0" by 15'6", Books (four times), Library, Servants Hall / 19'0" by 22'0", arcade, common staircase, door, way into / cellar, risers numbered 1 to 10, Court and Pantry

Signed and dated

(Copy) Lincolns Inn Fields July 29 1796

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen and grey, black and blue washes on wove paper with one fold mark (665 x 527)

Hand

Henry Hake Seward (pupil 1794-1808)

Notes

The proposed (though unbuilt) design entails demolishing the older rooms of the existing house and replacing them with a symmetrical east front containing large formal rooms. The new east front has a porch between two Venetian windows. An eating room and ante-room are on this east front and a new principal staircase occupies the centre of the plan. The principal rooms being arranged on the east and south fronts reduces the prominence of Soane's north-west drawing room of 1788-9.

On 28 July 1796 Soane visited Lady Pembroke at the lodge, staying from 10 until 3 to discuss designs for alterations. He returned home and, according to his Journal N^o3, worked on drawings until 11 at night. The following day he visited the client with two plans and two small views of a hall and eating room. The plans were approved and estimates were ordered, although building work did not commence.

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Drawing

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