[1] Record drawings of a design of c. 1784 for a four-bay, two-storey addition

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  - Rectory Manor, Walthamstow, London: (executed) additions for William Cooke, 1784 (2)

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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 Will^mCooke Esq^rshowing 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 Alter^s&c', another for 12 July 1784 'Mr Cooke, A Journey to Walthamstow, begun the Church. Rec^d£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

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