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Variant designs for a cottage, April 1793 (2)

On 20 April 1793 Soane's office delivered to Lady Hardwicke three variant designs for cottages and a Sunday school. Drawings 9 and 10 show two designs but neither seems to include a Sunday school; perhaps this was part of the third design, or the school was meant to occupy the communal room in drawing 9.

Drawings 9 and 10 are designs for semi-detached cottages for the Wimpole estate. Both buildings contain two separate dwellings and a shared entrance porch. Drawing 9 incorporates a shared 'shop' between the dwellings; this room was probably a workshop. In each, a separate staircase ascends behind the respective kitchen.

The buildings have thatched roofs and round-headed windows. They are small buildings with varied rooflines, built to sit nicely within the landscape. Both of the drawings show the buildings set amont the landscape, before a pond and a winding dirt path. They are designed in a 'picturesque' style, contributing charm and interest to the landscape. The houses would have housed workers on the estate.

In 1784, Soane designed five cottages for the Earl of Hardwicke (then Philip Yorke) at Hamels Park (q.v.). At Wimpole, Soane designed three more cottages. The executed designs of these buildings are unknown, though an existing cottage now called 'French House' can be identified as one of them (D. Stroud, p. 761).
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