4/15 in to 1 ft

some dimensions given

• c.1792

Black and red pen, sepia washes, pencil, pricked for transfer no laid paper (380 x 205)

Dance

The site was a corner on the west side of Mincing Lane and the north side of Tower Street - No. 83 Great Tower Street in 1784. The depth of the site was about 47 feet and, at its widest, about 24 feet 6 inches. The problem was to reconcile shop premises and living accommodation with a best stair and a back stair on a tight site with two party walls and two street fronts. Here, the basic division of shop, office, hall and back parlour has been settled, but the plan of the principal stair is a stretched ellipse; the back stair, in a compartment of about 8 by 6 feet, has a quarter turn with landing roughly amended to an oval plan. Both are placed against the party wall, the larger stair approached through the shop that fronts Tower Street and from the house entrance in Mincing Lane. The shop front has a door in the centre. The rough details of a segmental fanlight are presumably for the shop door and the detail of the shop front includes panelled pilasters fronting the piers.

Verso
Rough perspective of a hearth
Inscribed: dimensional calculations
Pencil

Drawing

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