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Reference number

SM D1/10/32

Purpose

Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08

Aspect

[40] Plan of principal floor of house and of domestic offices and cross-section AB through offices

Scale

¼ Inch to the Foot

Inscribed

as above, rooms labelled, dimensions given, NB The Floor of the Offices is to be 6 Feet below the principal Floor of the House, The Five Cesspools mark'd C to be 3 Feet Diameter / to be sunk 2 Feet below the Drain and / the bottom & sides to be work'd with Barrow lime

Signed and dated

  • 1802-08

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, burnt umber, light red, yellow and blue washes, pencil, hatching, pricked for transfer on thick wove paper, with four old patches (690 x 1195)

Hand

Dance, builder (Carter?)

Watermark

Joseph Ruse Tovill Mill Maidstone 1803

Notes

The drawing has some illegible pencil notes by the builder and was probably used on site. Previous plans ([SM D1/10/29] and [SM D1/10/28]) show the porte-cochere walls immediately on either side of the entrance as quadrant on plan; here they are set diagonally and on [SM D1/10/23] (the 'as built' plan where the porte-cochere is hatched in, suggesting that it was not yet built) the walls start diagonally from the door and then straighten out.

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Drawing

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