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Working drawings - plans and section for the carpenter, February-March 1793 (5)

The roof section shows one of a pair of king-post trusses with a common tie-beam of about 13 and a half feet (marked 'D'). However, the principal rafters (marked 'A') only measure about four and a half feet in the centre while the out-facing principal rafters are 12 feet long and are tied at the bottom by a 12 inch beam that spans about 28 and a half feet.
Drawing 23 shows the intricate (semi-M) roof with the two arched 'chimney shafts' placed in the valley that has a gutter to take off the rainwater. Presumably, the idea was to stabilize and partly conceal the chimney stacks which drawing 30 shows as projecting three feet above the roof line.
Drawing 27 is stamped 'IS', that is Soane's initials, as are drawings 18, 30, 32.
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