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Reference number

SM D1/10/15

Purpose

Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08

Aspect

[32] Ground floor plan with existing walls shown without porte-cochere or office wing

Scale

¼ in to 1 ft

Inscribed

rooms labelled including Drawing room, Boudoir, Eating room, Hall, Library, Vestibule, dimensions given, come calculations and (verso, Dance) Coleorton Hall / Plan

Signed and dated

  • 1802-08

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink, sepia and yellow washes, pencil, some trace lines, pricked for transfer on laid paper (640 x 540)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D & C Blauw IV

Notes

The design corresponds broadly to the 'as built' plan ([SM D1/10/23]) except that, for example, the dining room in the southwest corner is unresolved and Beaumont's sitting room has two instead of four swept corners. The alcoves in the Polygon Hall are shown as semicircular - as built, these were five-sided. The existing masonry, shown in sepia wash, and its dimensions relate to Dance's survey drawings, dated 3 June 1804 ([SM D1/9/2]).

Level

Drawing

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