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Centre - Elevation of an entrance gateway and lodge flanked by a wooden fence. There is a central single-bay block containing an arch with slit windows set within the spandrels and castellation above. At the second-storey level there are tripartite lancet windows with moulded lintels. The roof line is castellated and terminates in turrets with pinnacle roofs. Beyond this there is a castellated pitched roof surmounted by a cross. The central block is flanked by single-storey, single-bay castellated links which contain entrances with moulded lintels set above. The building terminates in one-and-a-half-storey, single-bay castellated pavillions with elongated arches containing narrow windows. The roof line of the pavillions contain further turrets, surmounted by crosses
Below - Elevation of an entrance gateway and lodge, flanked by a wooden fence. The central block is two-stories in height and contains a central arch surmounted by a moulded bracket. The arch is flanked by cross-shaped windows and there are tripartite lancet windows above. The roof line is castellated and terminates in turrets surmounted by pinnacle roofs. Beyond this there is a pitched roof bearing a cross. The central block is flanked by one-and-a-half-storey, single-bay links containing entrances with cross-shaped windows set above. The building terminates in one-and-a-half-storey, single-bay pavillions with a castellated roof surmounted by turrets. The pavillions form arches with lancet windows set within
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- c1782
c1782
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Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
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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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