(plan) ¼ in to 10 ft and (elevation) 1/6 in to 1 ft

as above, The Heads of the Windows of the Ground Floor Story and all the Parts above / the same in each Mass of Building are to range level throughout. / The Heads of the said Windows are to be not less than 12 feet 5 inches above the / highest part of the Footway before each Mass of Building, labelled (frontage to Tottenham Court Road) This Ground is already let on building Leases and dimensions given Signed: Office of Works / Guildhall Dated: 8th Feby 1803

• 1803

Pen, sepia, yellow ochre, blue, pink, gamboge, green earth and emerald green washes, shaded, within double ruled and wash border, partly pricked for transfer on wove paper (525 x 720)

office

1794 J Whatman

The plan shows Alfred Place (which is parallel with Tottenham Coutt Road) with 19 houses on each side of the road, bisected at the north end by Chenies Street with North Crescent beyond with nine lots and by Store Street at the south end with South Crescent beyond, also with nine lots; the lots are washed alternately in bright pink and yellow for clarity and this is found also in a letting plan of Finsbury Square. The elevations of two typical houses, one for Alfred Place and the other for the crescents and slightly wider, show them to be of three storeys above a basement and with a mansard attic; each is three bays wide with a door (painted bright green) in the right-hand bay and tall first floor windows fronted by iron balconies. All are identical, plain and without any accents 'to compete with the geometric clarity of the layout, whose dimensions were ... determined by the theory of harmonic proportion.' Thus, according to Kalman (p.206), on this drawing, the width and height of the houses and the distance between them across the street are on a ratio of 20:40:80 feet (or 21:42:84) and other figures are extrapolated including the length of street and crescent (200:400), pavements widths, widths of end and central houses and depth of plot areas.

A similar plan and elevation are also dated 8 February 1803 (CLRO, Comptroller's City Lands Plan 486) has the names of the lessees inscribed on it, including 'Bernasconi' against five plots. Francis Bernasconi, a plasterer, worked on several of Dance's jobs and sent bills for Ashburnam Place, 1813-14, from Alfred Place, Bedford Square; a bill of 1819 is from 'Bernasconi & Son'.

REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.56c.

Drawing

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