[3] Copy of designs for the ground floor and the one pair floor, 25 August 1800

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [3] Copy of designs for the ground floor and the one pair floor, 25 August 1800

Browse

Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Town houses
  - London: Haymarket, Westminster: terrace of three houses for Benjamin Brecknell, 1800 (3)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM 39/1/14

Purpose

[3] Copy of designs for the ground floor and the one pair floor, 25 August 1800

Aspect

Plan of the Ground Floor N^o 5 and Plan of the One Pair Floor N^o 6

Inscribed

as above, labelled: Line of present Back / Wall, Line of Back fronts / over Bress summers (sic), Copper, New Work to be / carried on Stone / Corbells place / thro the Wall, Sink, Brick Nog^g, Place for Cistern / & Sky light above, Privy to be only / 6.6 high to admit / one above as shown / in plan of next / story, Old Wall, The Doorway of this Floor to be 6 feet 6 in high in finishings, Center / of the pre[sent] / Party Wall, Window to light back Room / of Lemon Tree House 2 fram[es] / deep from the Ceiling of / that Room, Dresser (twice), Kitchen, A fixed Sash / over this door, Seats (8 times), Table (twice), Tap Room, Barr (sic), here a / glazed / door, Drinking Box / with Seats & Table, Entrance / Passage, enclosed only / 6.6 high, Parlor, Flue to be made / if wanted for Shop, NB. The 2 in Partitions of these Houses on this / Floor shewn by dotted lines are to be / omitted in the Contract as also the / finishing of both fronts under the / Bressumer of these 2 Houses, Flue to / be made / if wanted / for Shop, Line of Front of / South adjoining House, Line of present Fronts (twice), Hay Market, Line of front of Lemon / Tree Public House, Line of Window front of D^o, Skylight (twice), Brick Nog, This Privy to / go off the 11 / Step from G^d / Floor & to be 6.6 high / with Reservoir over, The Doorways of this Floor to be 6.6 high &^c, Closet, Chimney to be in Center / of Room, Folding Doors Partition, Sign^d Benjⁿ Brecknell / P Peckham (twice) and dimensions given

Signed and dated

25 August 1800
Copy Lin Inn Fields Aug^t 25 1800

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, light red and yellow washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (676 x 557)

Hand

Seward and Sword

Notes

The three houses are sited next to the Lemon Tree Public House and the new public house is angled slightly away from the other new houses. The plans of the two houses almost mirror each other, while the plan of the public house shows seating, tables, a bar, dressers and a kitchen at the rear of the site. The kitchen and privy are top-lit by skylights between the back of the house and the existing wall of the properties to the rear. The houses each have two entrances from the Haymarket - one leading into the front room of the shop and another leading directly to the staircase (and the domestic quarters). The total width of the frontage is 49 feet 10 inches.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).