Record drawing of a design similar to design 'No 2', 1829

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Office of Works
  - London: New State Paper Office, Duke Street, Westminster, 1829-34 (207)

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Reference number

SM (40) 82/1/6

Purpose

Record drawing of a design similar to design 'No 2', 1829

Aspect

40 Plans of the ground, first and attic floors and elevation of the north front

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 10 feet

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, raw umber, pink, yellow and blue washes, pricked for transfer with single ruled border on laid paper (282 x 257)

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

W Weatherley 1829

Notes

The three plans on drawing 40 match those of Design 'No 2' (drawings 15-38). The position of the chimneys, however, is not the same, perhaps as a result of the instruction 'no fire places to be between the Windows where it can be avoided' (q.v. drawing 27). Presumably this was to do with fireproofing - perhaps because of the positions of the flues, or else because of draughts coming through the windows.

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Drawing

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