Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
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  - 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 D1/13/16

Purpose

Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1802-08

Aspect

[99] Plan of Polygon Hall and exedra showing heating flues below the ground floor

Scale

Scale ¾ Inch to the Foot

Inscribed

as above, Plan of Polygonal Hall, labelled Warm air (twice) Smoke Flue and dimensions given Signed: GD Dated: Coleorton April 12^th 1805

Signed and dated

1802-08

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink and sepia washes, pencil, partly pricked for transfer on laid paper (675 x 480)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

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

Notes

The pink wash indicates the ground floor while the sepia wash seems to show the basement. The smoke and warm air flues run in a circle around the hall and through the exedra; the following plan shows further ducts in the stair well. Seven of the eight circular (brass) ventilators shown on the plan still exist and a ducting system under the stone paved floor is also extant.

See also [SM D1/10/25] for the plan of another heating system and [SM D1/14/5] verso for a rough design for the external ventilator.

Level

Drawing

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