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[1] Record drawings of a design of c. 1784 for a four-bay, two-storey addition
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Reference number
SM volume 41/38 recto
Purpose
[1] Record drawings of a design of c. 1784 for a four-bay, two-storey addition
Aspect
Plan of the Ground Floor for Willm Cooke Esqr showing a new laundry, kitchen and dining room with a large table and, at the rear, a passageway
Scale
bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above, labelled Boarded on Oak Ground Joists, Purbeck Paving, This Chimney the same / height as the old, Paved (five times), Kitchen Court, (pencil) Clean[ing] / Shoes and Scull[er]y, and dimensions given. List of timbers: Girder ... 10 by 9½ deep / Joists ... 2½ by 10 / Plate ... 9 by 5 / Poll Plate ... 4 by 3 / Rafters ... 5 by 2½ / Beam to Cieling ... 7 by 5 / Cieling Joist ... 3 by 2½
Signed and dated
- originally drawn c. January 1784
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, raw umber, green and pink washes, some watercolour technique, pencil on laid paper (243 x 365)
Hand
John Sanders (pupil 1784-90)
Watermark
fleur-de-lis
Notes
Stroud (op.cit., p.240) states ' A new reception room and kitchen added to the east. Soane may also have been responsible for the simple entrance gateway of brick with stone coping. The property was sold in 1897 and demolished to form Aubrey and Howard Roads.'
The TS index and MS transcript of Soane's Note Books have a number of entries for William Cooke. The first is for 27 January 1784 'about Mr Cookes Alters &c', another for 12 July 1784 'Mr Cooke, A Journey to Walthamstow, begun the Church. Recd £550 making in all £1250 & is in full of all demands, leaving for me £78.'. There are other references in SM Ledger A, p.52 and SM Account Book 1781-6 dealing with minor tradesmen's bills.
Stroud, op.cit, p.243, List of works, 1784: St Mary's Church, Walthamstow - 'unspecified work carried out in the church at the expense of Mr Cooke, but it cannot now be identified'.
Walthamstow, once in the county of Essex, is now part of Greater London and in the London borough of Waltham Forest.
Jill Lever, April 2009
The TS index and MS transcript of Soane's Note Books have a number of entries for William Cooke. The first is for 27 January 1784 'about Mr Cookes Alters &c', another for 12 July 1784 'Mr Cooke, A Journey to Walthamstow, begun the Church. Recd £550 making in all £1250 & is in full of all demands, leaving for me £78.'. There are other references in SM Ledger A, p.52 and SM Account Book 1781-6 dealing with minor tradesmen's bills.
Stroud, op.cit, p.243, List of works, 1784: St Mary's Church, Walthamstow - 'unspecified work carried out in the church at the expense of Mr Cooke, but it cannot now be identified'.
Walthamstow, once in the county of Essex, is now part of Greater London and in the London borough of Waltham Forest.
Jill Lever, April 2009
Literature
D.Stroud, John Soane architect, 2nd ed., 1996, pp. 54,56,240,243
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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