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Reference number

SM 28/4/1

Purpose

[1] Design with part-specification, July 1785

Aspect

The Plan of the Ground Floor, The West or Entrance Front, The South Front, The East or end Front, The North or Front next the Kitchen Court

Scale

bar scale of 1/9 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, N. Rix Esqre,(Soane) NB. The Floor of the Kitchen & Scullery are 3'6" lower than the Floors of the other Rooms, The parts in the plan distinguished with Light Ink are designed to be only one Story high, plan labelled (Baldwin): Withdrawing Room, Kitchen, Paved with Bricks, Scullery, Staircase, The Eating Room, Pantry, Store Room, Entrance, Mr Rix's room, Recess / only (twice), Win[dow] and dimensions given, some in red pen. Verso (McDonnell): a key AA to I of timbers viz. Girders, Trimmer &c, Joists, Bond Timber, Lintols, a key K to P of instructions such as: This breast to be only 4 feet above the Ground floor, All the partititions to be omitted until the house is roofed in; further instructions include NB No Timbers of any kind to be laid within 9 Inches of a Chimney / or Flue in any part of the Building and The hardest bricks to be selected for the Angles and Jaumbs of / Doors and Windows &c every Brick to be bedded and / flushed with morter, in the thickest Walls the courses to / be traversed and grouted... The Joints of the Brickwork to the Fronts not be struck / nor are the Joints to exceed ¼ of an Inch in thickness.

Signed and dated

  • J Soane Archt Margaret Street and July 1785

Medium and dimensions

Pen, red pen, pale burnt umber, sepia and grey-blue washes, shaded, within single ruled (wide) border on laid paper (roughly 590 x 470) with traces of red sealing wax on four corners of verso

Hand

recto Robert Baldwin (fl.1762-1804) verso John McDonnell (pupil, 18 March 1786-91)

Watermark

J Whatman, fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, ornate W

Level

Drawing

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