Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis)

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
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  - Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis) (226). Survey drawings, preliminary designs, design and working drawings

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Reference number

SM D5/1/3

Purpose

Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis)

Aspect

[2] Plan of second floor and showing the floor joists of the front room of No.42

Scale

¼ in to 1ft

Inscribed

Two Pair Floor / Three pair, or Attics the same Plan

Signed and dated

1805-12

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink and raw umber washes, pencil pricked for transfer on laid paper (470 x 650)

Hand

Dance

Notes

[SM D5/1/4] and [SM D5/1/3] show adjacent houses. Each has a front door with a window either side and with a blind window fronting the party wall; No.41, the left-hand (eastern) house has three rooms and a half-turn stair. The combined frontage is 84 feet 8 inches with (left-hand house) a depth of 54 feet 4 inches. Minor alterations are proposed on [SM D5/1/4] including a refacing of the front elevation with small adjustments to the openings.

No.41, with basement, three floors and attics, 'dated from about the end of 1724, when it replaced a house destroyed by fire earlier that year' (Stroud p.193). The ratebooks show the Royal College of Surgeons at No.41 from 1797, Mr William Baldwin having lived there from 1786-96; No.42 was bought in 1803, Mr Robert Jenner having been the previous occupant from 1791. He was preceded by, for example, the Child family (1704-67), the house being rebuilt in, probably, 1703 (Survey of London, St Giles-in-the-fields, Part 1 (Lincoln's Inn Fields), III, 1912, pp.50-3).

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Drawing

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