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[54] Revised design using part of Lord Yarborough's house, June 1810
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Reference number
SM 67/5/13
Purpose
[54] Revised design using part of Lord Yarborough's house, June 1810
Aspect
Plan of the ground floor, with a block plan of the surrounding buildings
Scale
to a scale
Hand
Soane office
Notes
This design could be labelled 'design B' as by this point Soane had succumbed to the Board of Commissioners' wishes that the new Infirmary should involve the conversion of at least part of Yarborough House. Thus as Margaret Richardson writes, the new design 'consisted of a long range of buildings running east-west from which two wings extended south', as shown in SM 67/5/9.
This drawing, SM 67/5/12, SM 67/5/10 and SM 67/5/11 indicate the parts of Yarborough House (marked in grey) considered for conversion to the new Infirmary. The extent of conversion increases within this group of plans, with SM 67/5/12 detailing only the matron's room, visiting apothecary, one ward and the nurses' common room (as labelled on SM 67/5/10) as part of that conversion. The following three plans also include another ward for eight patients, as part of the re-use.
This drawing, SM 67/5/12, SM 67/5/10 and SM 67/5/11 indicate the parts of Yarborough House (marked in grey) considered for conversion to the new Infirmary. The extent of conversion increases within this group of plans, with SM 67/5/12 detailing only the matron's room, visiting apothecary, one ward and the nurses' common room (as labelled on SM 67/5/10) as part of that conversion. The following three plans also include another ward for eight patients, as part of the re-use.
Literature
M. Richardson, 'Soane in Chelsea', pp.45-51, The Chelsea Society Report, 1992
Level
Drawing
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