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Reference number

SM 66/5/15

Purpose

[185] Design, 26 January 1818

Aspect

Chelsea Hospital, Plan of New Guard House

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

as above and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • Taken Jany 26th 1818 Mee

Hand

A.P. Mee (1802-1868, pupil 1818-1823)

Notes

This drawing, SM 67/1/24 and SM 67/1/25 show a three-room building, each room with its own fireplace under a central chimney-stack that is a simpler version of that shown on SM 66/ 5 14. The additional small room (8' 6" x 5' 9" in SM 66/5/13) with slit windows may have been intended as an armoury or as a detention cell.

SM 67/1/25 shows Soane's yellow stock brick exterior, with a dentilated cornice (similar to the Bakehouse). The windows, door and blind window have red rubbed-brick surrounds. Stone quoining is used at the building's corners. As with other small buildings built by Soane (and Wren) at Chelsea, the Guardhouse has a hipped slate roof and central chimney.

Level

Drawing

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