Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Country Houses (31)
  - Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08 (170). Builder's letter, survey drawings, alternative designs, record drawing, preliminary design, design and working drawings for Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet

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Reference number

SM D1/10/23

Purpose

Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08

Aspect

[41] Plan of the principal story of Coleorton Hall / in Leicestershire the seat of Sir George Beaumont Bar^t

Scale

1/7 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

as above, rooms labelled, dimensions given and (verso) Plan of Coleorton hall / the seat of Sir George Beaumont Bar^t / near / near Ashby de la Zouch / Leicestershire
Signed: George Dance Architect
Dated: Aug^st 1808

Signed and dated

1802-08

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, hatching, pencil, within single ruled border, pricked for transfer on laid paper (465 x 610)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D & C Blauw and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and WR below

Notes

The north part of the domestic offices with the servants' hall and butler's room is shown but the diagonal service wing running northwest is only partly shown.

As Kalman suggests (p.168), Dance's final plan for Coleorton conforms basically to the standard three-by-three villa scheme. About one third of the floor area is taken up by the stairs and (on a central axis) entrance hall, vestibule and 'Polygon Hall' of 18 feet diameter. The overall dimensions are approximately 70 by 78 feet (west and south fronts, external). In the Polygon Hall, the alcoves are shown as semicircular on plan when in fact they were built with five sides.

The porte-cochere is hatched in implying that it had not yet been built.

REPORDUCED. Stroud fig.61a and captioned 'Dance's plan for the house as built'.

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