[11] Design for lodges, dated 23 April 1791

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  - Netheravon House, Wiltshire: alterations and additions and designs for lodges for Michael Hicks Beach, 1791 (12)

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Reference number

SM 62/8/17

Purpose

[11] Design for lodges, dated 23 April 1791

Aspect

Elevation of Lodge and Plan of Lodge

Scale

bar scale of ¼ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, M:Hicks Beach Esq^re,To be built with rough cast & flint / & to be covered with Thatch, plan labelled: Kitchen, Pantry & Cellar, Bed Room, Porch and Privy and (pencil) A Copy of this sent to M^r/ Ellis May: 9 1791 (verso) M. Hicks Beach Esq^re/ Netheravon House / Amesbury // April 23:1791 / A Single Sheet of Paper, (added) 5 and (stamped) P 23 within a circle

Signed and dated

23 April 1791
Great Scotland Yard / April 23^d: 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and raw sienna washes with double ruled and black wash border, pricked for transfer, on laid paper with four fold marks (folded for posting, cut away ? to remove sealing wax on right-hand side) (455 x 280)

Hand

? Thomas Chawner (1774-171851, pupil 1799-1794)

Watermark

J Whatman

Notes

Drawing 11 is for a lodge 16 by 18 feet with 12-inch-thick thick walls (as drawn) and a thatched, pyramidal roof with a central chimney. The dimensions are not generous: kitchen 14 x 9.6, pantry and celllar 5 x 5.9 and bedroom 8 x 5.9, the roof space would have been used for ad hoc storage or sleeping.

An earlier drawing has a note '2 lodges one with flints' and both this drawing and SM 62/8/18 employ flints, though the smaller lodge has 'rough cast' for the porch and privy. Flint was locally available and perhaps Higgs Beach requested it. Both lodges have thatched roofs. The lodge designs differ from Soane's earliest executed example in a primitive, rustic style - the dairy at Hamels Park, 1783 (q.v.) - a Doric temple with tree-trunk columns. Here a striking element is the segmental-headed, rusticated arch to the window and the emphatic plinth and platband.

The reference 'A Copy of this sent to M^r/ Ellis May: 9 1791' relates to another of Soane's clients. A 'Mr Ellis' of Wydiall House near Buntingford, Hertfordshire who had asked Soane for designs for cottages. (P. Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.183).

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