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  - Malvern Hall, Warwickshire: (executed) alterations and addition of wings and porch for Henry Greswold Lewis, 1783-1786 (15)

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Reference number

SM volume 41/32 recto

Purpose

[3] Record copy of design

Aspect

Plan of the Basement Story of Malvern Hall / with the intended Alterations and Additions with pencil modifications (by Soane) to partitions, stair etc

Scale

bar scale of 1/11 inch to 1 foot (approximately)

Inscribed

as above, labelled (new rooms) Stewards Parlor / and Audit room, Hot Bath / & / Dress^g Room, Passage, Staircase, Small Beer Cellar, Strong Beer Cellar, Scullery, Kitchen with Dresser, Staircase, The Butlers Pantry, Servants Hall (cancelled and in pencil Maids Room), (old house) Cold Bath, Staircase, Closet for / Flambeaus, Coals &c, Lobby to Staircase, Passage, Wine Cellar (three times), Servants / & / Powdering Room, Plate Closet, Passage, Maids Closet, Lobby, Housekeepers Room, Housekeepers / Store Room, Clean^gShoes / Knives &c (these last two rooms cancelled and in pencil Servants Hall)

Signed and dated

datable to Octr 1783

Medium and dimensions

Pen, black and sepia wash, pencil on laid paper (242 x 360), bound into 'Precedents in Architecture' SM volume 41

Hand

John Sanders (pupil 1784-90), pencil additions by Soane

Watermark

T French

Notes

An unusual feature of the basement storey was an unexecuted 'Hot Bath', a detailed plan and laid out elevations for which are shown on a drawing in the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A 3436.188) reproduced and discussed in P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.126-7, fig.6.22.

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect , 1982, pp.126-8 (bathroom)

Level

Drawing

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