[6] Presentation drawing of designs for alterations to offices in the east wing, May 1795

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Reference number

SM 41/6/5

Purpose

[6] Presentation drawing of designs for alterations to offices in the east wing, May 1795

Aspect

Plan of the one pair Floor, Plan of the two pair Floor and Plan of the Garrets

Scale

bar scale of 1/16 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled: Somerset Place, (One Pair Floor) D, 13.9 high, The Auditor's / Office, Pipe Office / Clerk / 16.0 by 15.0, Pipe Office / Records / 17.6 by 14.9, Pipe Office / Records / 13.0 by 21.6, 22.6 by 14.9, 26.6 by 15.0, Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's / Records / 25.0 by 15.0, N^o 4, Clerk of the Leases / Pipe Office / 16.0 by 15.0, (Two Pair Floor) E, 9.0 high, Comptroller of the Pipe Office / 7.6 by 17.6, Clerks / 18.0 by 17.6, Lord Treasurer's / Remembrancer's / Chamber / 16.0 by 15.0, Pipe Office / Records / 17.6 by 14.6, (pencil) Cornwall, Pipe Office / Records / 13.3 by 21.6, 22.6 by 14.9, (pencil) Door, 6.9, (pencil) A, 18.0 by 15.0, Lord Treasurer's / Remembrancer's / Records / 15.9 by 15.0, N^o 6, 8.6 by 15.0, N^o 5, Lord Treasurer's / Remembrancer's / Chamber / 16.0 by 15.0, 7.6 by 17.6, Clerk of Estreats / 18.0 by 17.6, (Garrets) F, 7.0 high, Pipe Chamber / 7.6 by 17.6, Pipe / Chamber / 9.0 by 17.6, Comptroller of the / Pipe / Record Room / 16.0 by 15.0, Pipe Office / Records / 17.6 by 14.0, (pencil) Cornwall, Pipe Office / Records / 13.3 by 21.0, 10 by 14.0, 10.6 by 14.0, 6.9, 18.0 by 15.0, The Lord Treasurer's Remembranc^rs / 15.9 by 10.0, N^o 8, 8.6 by 15.0, N^o 7, Clerk of / Estreats / Record Room / 16.0 by 15.0, 7.6 by 17.6, The Lord Treasurer's / Remembrancer's / Chamber / 18.0 by 17.6, The Parts teinted Green to be occupied / by the Duchy of Cornwall, (feint pencil) A Room occupied by the Duchy / B Room in lieu of it

Signed and dated

Lincolns Inn Fields May 1795

Medium and dimensions

Pen, black, yellow, light red and green washes, pricked for transfer with a triple ruled and sepia wash border on stout laid paper with one fold mark (564 x 438)

Hand

Frederick Meyer (1775-?, pupil 1791-96) or Thomas Jeans, jnr. (c.1775-1866, pupil 1792-97)

Watermark

J Larking and fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, GR

Notes

The presentation drawings shown here and in SM 41/6/6 are probably the same as those referred to in letter 8 (SM 41/6/1B). The former offices of the Duchy of Cornwall have been appropriated and incorporated into the Exchequer offices. On the basement story and the two pair floor this has been achieved with a breakthrough between the two staircases.

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