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  • image SM D1/10/2

Reference number

SM D1/10/2

Purpose

Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08

Aspect

[15] Principal Story

Scale

Scale 1/8 to th foot

Inscribed

as above, (builder's hand) 48 square of building exclusive of Offices / 25 square do -- -- in the two setts of Offices / 230 rod of bk-work include Offices, (Dance) 32 Square of Floor on each Story

Signed and dated

  • 1802-08

Medium and dimensions

Brown and black pen, light red and sepia washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper (310 x 540)

Hand

Dance

Notes

The principal stair (on the central axis and with a stretched semicircular plan) returns over the entrance, rising to the first floor gallery. Kalman (p.167) points out that the same idea appears in 'two early villas by Soane: Letton Hall, Norfolk (1783), and Tendring Hall, Suffolk (1784-6'.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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