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  • image SM volume 76/54

Reference number

SM volume 76/54

Purpose

[146] Site record drawing of the old house, 25 April 1815

Aspect

View of the Back part of the Clerk of the Works' house, / as it stood previously to the alterations, Chelsea Hospital (south front)

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

  • April 25th. 1815

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing, SM volume 76/55 and SM volume 76/58 (a well as SM volume 76/56 and SM volume 76/57) show the house, visually divided into two parts. That to the east has a pitched roof with dormer windows above four tall windows while the west part of the house is made up of a number of additions.

This drawing is from a south-east viewpoint. It has the L-shaped layout shown on SM 66/5/10 and SM 66/5/11. As indicated by the outline of a gabled extension, a building has clearly been removed from the internal right-angle of this layout. This may have been the 'Office' drawn in red ink on SM 66/5/11. To the east (the right hand side), the Clerk of Works' House extends as far as the ground floor window furthest to the right - this room is the one labelled 'Library' on SM 66/5/10. Beyond this, the old stables run directly on from the Clerk of Works' House (as indicated by the double wooden doors within a large arch).

Literature

C.G.T. Dean, The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 1950, p.115

Level

Drawing

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