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Reference number
SM D1/11/15
Purpose
Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08
Aspect
[28] Elevation of entrance front with short pavilion office wings
Scale
1/8 in to 1 ft
Signed and dated
- 1802-08
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, raw umber and blue washes, shaded, watercolour technique, pencil on laid paper (215 x 505)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis
Notes
NOTES ON [SM D1/10/5] and [SM D1/11/15]
Design E has an oval drawing room at its apex, flanked by an eating room and library that are stretched octagons with (internal) apsidal ends. These three rooms give on to a central staircase hall with a reverse imperial stair, that is, a circular geometric stair that rises in twin flights and becomes a single central flight at the first floor level. The offices are lateral wings with pavilion ends. The striking plan shape of the house recalls (without its wings) Robert Adam's plan of 1791 for Walkinshaw House, Renfrewshire with its Neo-Classical exterior (SM Adam vol.31, 56-62). Adam's plan, though, is triangular while Dance's is more lozenge-like.
The elevation, with drop-and Tudor-arched openings and battlemented parapets, shows the result of Dance's unconventional, compressed villa plan, its curved and straight-sided form modelled by receding and advancing planes that give the building both movement and gravitas.
See also Dance's early design for a villa on a triangular plan (Juvenilia).
Design E has an oval drawing room at its apex, flanked by an eating room and library that are stretched octagons with (internal) apsidal ends. These three rooms give on to a central staircase hall with a reverse imperial stair, that is, a circular geometric stair that rises in twin flights and becomes a single central flight at the first floor level. The offices are lateral wings with pavilion ends. The striking plan shape of the house recalls (without its wings) Robert Adam's plan of 1791 for Walkinshaw House, Renfrewshire with its Neo-Classical exterior (SM Adam vol.31, 56-62). Adam's plan, though, is triangular while Dance's is more lozenge-like.
The elevation, with drop-and Tudor-arched openings and battlemented parapets, shows the result of Dance's unconventional, compressed villa plan, its curved and straight-sided form modelled by receding and advancing planes that give the building both movement and gravitas.
See also Dance's early design for a villa on a triangular plan (Juvenilia).
Level
Drawing
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