Design for Messrs Thellusson, Nephew & Co.'s counting house (house No. 2), April 1810

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Bank of England
  - London: New Bank Buildings, Princes Street, City of London, 1807-10 (115)

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Reference number

SM (73) 11/3/8

Purpose

Design for Messrs Thellusson, Nephew & Co.'s counting house (house No. 2), April 1810

Aspect

73 Plan of the Principal Floor of the Counting House &^c of Mess^rs Thelusson & C^o N^o 2 New Bank Buildings and rough plan of ground floor of counting house for house No. 3

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled: N^o 1, N^o 2, N^o 3, Strong / Closet, Lobby, Closet / for / washing / hands / &^c, Clerks room / to the / Counting House, Court, Counting House, Closets for / Hats &^c, Cills for / accompts, Entrance / from / Meeting House Court, Passage leading to the several Houses lately erected in Princes Street, (pencil) Counting House, (pencil) Court, 12 x 6, Ch^y, Water Closet

Signed and dated

Lincolns Inn Fields / 23 April 1810

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, pink, yellow and blue washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper with three fold marks (522 x 643)

Hand

George Bailey (1792-1860, pupil then assistant 1806-37, curator 1837-60) and later additions by Soane

Notes

The new counting house built for Thellusson, Nephew & Co. behind house No. 2 was the largest of the three new offices, measuring 48 feet by 26 feet. Soane retained the octagonal room at the rear of No. 2, which was turned into a 'clerks room' with access to the large, 22 x 24 feet counting house. An entrance vestibule was designed for the Meeting House Court side of the building, with steps down to a lobby with four columns, an adjoining lobby and a stairwell. The offices behind No. 3 are drawn roughly in Soane's hand and were probably added at a later date.

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