[24] Variant preliminary design for kitchen offices, 1785

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Reference number

SM 28/2/18

Purpose

[24] Variant preliminary design for kitchen offices, 1785

Aspect

Plan, elevations and details inscribed (Sanders) Sketch of design for Offices and (feint pencil, verso) incomplete plan for offices

Scale

1/8 inch to one foot (approximately)

Inscribed

as above, (Sanders) Tendring Hall, (labelled by Soane) (of niches) blank 9 ins deep or similar, omit this, Old Steps as at A, Setoff of Mansion house, Ped[imen]^tPitch, A, Coping, old Step, Ro:[und] Arch (several times), L / End of Kitchen, O, Wood Molding to be nailed to the Poll / Plate, which plate / is to be laid flush / with the outside / Wall, (Poll or Pole Plate - piece of timber supporting the feet of common rafters) Brickwork, Jack / Arch / Gau[ged] (Jack Arch - one brick thick), 1½ brick, 2 brick, Stone weathered top, These dotted lines shew the Cieling / Joists &c, Ga: Arches, Wood, Stone, (plans) These indents to be continued / 8 feet high, Leave flush (twice), Leave / the door / in 4½ / ----- (illegible), Arch over this door / as at L, Gauged Arch (twice) and some dimensions given; verso, (Baldwin) Tendring Hall / Plan of Offices

Signed and dated

(builder's hand) M^rSoane Margaret Street and datable to c. November 1785

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, pencil, hatching on cartridge paper with three fold marks (610 x 486)

Hand

Soane

Notes

The drawing shows the kitchen offices as three buildings, well spaced out, with twin enclosed, quadrant passage and storage ways that are 7 foot 6 inches wide. No link is shown with the house, and the elevation facing it shows twin, two-storey, three-bay buildings linked by three arches while the other (courtyard side) has twin three-bay offices linked by five narrow arches. Soane's rough design is not fully drawn out so that the curved walls that form the semicircular court are in pencil and a steeper arc is projected on one side. The side elevation shows a sloping site as pencilled-in on SM 28/2/6 and on V&A S1447.1898 (P. du Prey, op.cit, catalogue 110, plate 22). The latter has two-bay end buildings with Diocletian windows that appear also on the drawing catalogued here which must have preceded it.

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Drawing

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