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Reference number

SM D1/9/3

Purpose

Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08

Aspect

[2] Survey plan of house, offices, outhouses, summerhouse and garden with the church blocked in

Scale

1/15 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

Plan of Coleorton-hall / and out Offices, labelled including Bow Parlour, Back Parlour, Kitchen, Back Kitchen, Strawberry Garden, Haw-Haw, Summerhouse on Raised Ground, Grass walk, Grove, orchard, Garden, Hothouse, Back Grove, Rookery, Rick Yard, Waggon Hovel[s], Wash-pit, Stable[s] with Chicken pens, Pigsties, Grainery, Dung Yard, Barn[s] and Fold Yard[s] with Dovecot, cow sheds, dimensions given, (Dance) NB The parts tinted Black are the Old Walls / The parts tinted Red are the proposed new Walls / The parts tinted Blue are the Old Walls be be taken down / GD and (verso, Dance) Coleorton / Plan of the original Old buildings
Signed: GD (as above)
Dated: 27th Decr 1802

Signed and dated

  • 1802-08

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, pink and blue washes, pencil, partly pricked for transfer on wove paper two sheets joined (1055 x 530)

Hand

Mathews, Dance

Watermark

1801

Notes

The small existing 17th-century house has an irregular plan with a northwest octagonal tower. Dance has regularized the plan, which is now rectangular, rebuilding the south wall and extending the east wall. Two west windows have been enlarged, the southwest eating room remodelled with corner alcoves, and many of the partition walls removed leaving four large rooms and a large staircase hall.

The house has a 'Strawberry Garden' on the east side surrounded by a 'Haw-haw' and there is a 'Summerhouse' on 'Raised Ground' surrounded by Shrubs and a Hedge. Behind the house, to the west is a yard with barns, cow sheds, dovecot, poultry houses, pigsties, slaughter house, stables and granary and a walled kitchen garden with hothouse. The church lies very close to the house on the southwest side.

See [SM D1/9/1] for Mr Mathews's survey elevations.

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Drawing

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