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- 1764-65
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The architect for Farnaby's 1760s house is unknown, but the surviving drawings show that Robert Adam made designs for chimneypieces and tables. Adam's marble chimneypiece in the hall was executed, but it is not known if his other designs were executed or not.
The Farnaby title became extinct on the death of the 5th Baronet in 1859, and extensive alterations were made to the house from 1874. Since 1952 Kippington has been used as a care home, and since 1991 it has been at the centre of a seventeen-hectare conservation area.
Literature:
A.T. Bolton, The architecture of Robert & James Adam, 1922, Volume II, Index pp. 20, 70; E. Harris, The furniture of Robert Adam, 1963, pp. 50, 65; N. Pevsner, and J. Newman, The buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, 1976, p. 517; M. M. Drummond, 'Farnaby (afterwards Farnaby Radcliffe), Sir Charles, 3rd Bt (c1740-98), of Kippington, nr. Sevenoaks, Kent', The history of Parliament online
Frances Sands, 2012
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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Contents of Kippington, Sevenoaks, Kent: designs for chimneypieces and tables for Sir Charles Farnaby, 1764-65 (7)
- Design for a chimneypiece for the hall, 1764, as executed (1)
- Design for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1764 (1)
- Design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1764 (1)
- Design for a chimneypiece for Sir Charles's bedchamber, 1764 (1)
- Design for a chimneypiece for Sir Charles's dressing room, 1764 (1)
- Design for a chimneypiece for Lady Farnaby's dressing room, 1764 (1)
- Design for a table, 1765 (1)