[4] Design for the proposed alterations, c.1788

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  - Castle Hill, Devon: (executed) alterations to house and offices, 1786- c.1788, and record drawing, 1807, for 1st Earl Fortescue (5)

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Reference number

SM volume 67/52

Purpose

[4] Design for the proposed alterations, c.1788

Aspect

General Plan of Castle Hill with the proposed alterations

Scale

bar scale of 1/16 inch to 1 foot, approximately

Inscribed

as above, N^o2, The Right Hon^ble Lord Fortescue, The Parts teinted red show the intended alterations, plan lettered A-Z in pencil, Washouse / & / Laundry / over, Bakehouse, Meal, Wet Larder, Pantry, Kitchen, Scullery, Housekeeper, Store Room, Servants Hall, Eating Room, Butler, Plate, Under this / the dairy, Lords dress^g / Room, press (twice), Ladys dress^g / Room, Lobby, Chamber, Ladys Lib^y, Withdraw^gRoom, Great Hall, Library, Great Staircase, Lobby, Garderobe (twice), Stewards / Evidence / Room, Stewards / office, Stable (twice), Stables and Slaughter House and (pencil) Copied (twice) and dimensions given

Signed and dated

datable to 1786-1791 (hand, see Notes)

Medium and dimensions

Pen, grey and red wash, pencil within a single ruled pen and wash border on laid paper (591 x 442)

Hand

John McDonnell (1770-?, pupil 1786-1791)

Watermark

J Whatman

Notes

Drawings SM volume 67/52 and SM volume 64/123 show the proposed alterations in pink wash. Alterations include partitions within the existing walls of the west office wing and a small addition on its north front. In the central section of the house, a large eating room is included on the west side and a drawing room adjoins the great hall. A room on the east side, previously an entrance hall (SM volume 67/51), is now a chamber. New chimney-pieces are indicated in the dining room, drawing room, steward's office and east chamber. The dining room has columns in the corners and has been made smaller by the inclusion of an adjacent corridor to the office wing. On the north front of the house, a servants' hall, butler's room, and Lord's dressing room have been added and the exterior has been refaced to make the building look more symmetrical.

SM volume 64/123 is a copy of SM volume 67/52 , drawn by a pupil, James Adams jr, years after the original was made. SM volume 67/52 is datable to between 1786 and 1791: the hand is similar to SM 5/3/7 and SM volume 67/51, attributed to John McDonnell who worked in the Soane office until February 1791.

Literature

P. Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, pp. 175

Level

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