[186] Design, 28 July 1818

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  - London: Royal Hospital, Chelsea for the Board of Commissioners, 1807-1835 (226)
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Reference number

SM 67/1/24

Purpose

[186] Design, 28 July 1818

Aspect

Chelsea Hospital, Plan of the new Guard House. - built 1818

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

as above and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

28^th July 1818

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing, SM 66/5/15 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.

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Drawing

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