[1] Sketch design, not executed

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  - Castle Eden, County Durham: (executed) porch, (unexecuted) villa and stables for Rowland Burdon, October 1780 (4)

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Reference number

SM volume 42/121

Purpose

[1] Sketch design, not executed

Aspect

Elevation of five-bay, two-storey, porticoed house with single storey pavilion wings and two variant plans; elevation of five-bay, two-storey house with single storey portico without pediment and plan; perspective detail of roman tiles; (verso) elevation similar the first one but with the details of the centre bays inked out, and plan; unidentified detail

Scale

not to a scale

Inscribed

(recto) Castle Eden, N^o2, N^o3, North, Lib.[rary], Parl.[our] Kit.[chen], Scull.[ery], H[all], some dimensions given and Mount St / M^rsAnn London Bull & / Morn^gChronicle / instead of Courant (the Morning Chronicle and London Courant were newspapers, the London Bull[etin ?] has not been traced)

Signed and dated

Oct. 7. 1780

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, pencil on laid paper with four fold marks (220 x 367)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

post horn within a crowned cartouche and GR below (Heawood 2754)

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp. 120-22

Level

Drawing

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