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[198] Record drawing of the design for a single-storey design (as executed), 1 July 1818
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Reference number
SM 67/1/16
Purpose
[198] Record drawing of the design for a single-storey design (as executed), 1 July 1818
Aspect
Plan of the Gardener's House at Chelsea / (built in 1817)
Scale
bar scale
Inscribed
as above and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- July 1st. 1818 M
Hand
A.P. Mee (1802-1868, pupil 1818-1823) (see notes)
Watermark
1815
Notes
Soane built the Gardener's house in 1817 and this is evidently a record drawing of the design for the house as executed.
This drawing is a plan of the ground floor, very similar to the first group of plans, except for an additional stair running along the east side of the north-west room. The purpose of this is made clear by a drawing from the National Archives, (Works 31/230), which shows three plans; basement, ground floor and attic. The basement shows the north-west corner stairs emerging into a 'wash house', with a pantry and coal store beyond. The stair extends into the attic storey, which has two rooms labelled: a 'Store Room' and a 'Servants / Bed / Chamber'.
Both Richardson and Ptolemy Dean note the similarity between the Bake House and Gardener's House, located along the same road. Richardson suggests that both buildings 'share the almost primitive style of the stables and are built of common place yellow stock brick, of one storey with four windows and slate roofs with central chimney stacks'.
The drawing is probably by A.P. Mee, although the inscription is obscured by the border so that only 'M' is entirely visible.
A preliminary sketch for the drawing is in the SM Archives (Priv.Corr.IX.J.32-34).
This drawing is a plan of the ground floor, very similar to the first group of plans, except for an additional stair running along the east side of the north-west room. The purpose of this is made clear by a drawing from the National Archives, (Works 31/230), which shows three plans; basement, ground floor and attic. The basement shows the north-west corner stairs emerging into a 'wash house', with a pantry and coal store beyond. The stair extends into the attic storey, which has two rooms labelled: a 'Store Room' and a 'Servants / Bed / Chamber'.
Both Richardson and Ptolemy Dean note the similarity between the Bake House and Gardener's House, located along the same road. Richardson suggests that both buildings 'share the almost primitive style of the stables and are built of common place yellow stock brick, of one storey with four windows and slate roofs with central chimney stacks'.
The drawing is probably by A.P. Mee, although the inscription is obscured by the border so that only 'M' is entirely visible.
A preliminary sketch for the drawing is in the SM Archives (Priv.Corr.IX.J.32-34).
Literature
M. Richardson, 'Soane in Chelsea', pp.45-51, The Chelsea Society Report, 1992, p.49
P. Dean, 'The Royal Hospital Chelsea I- Pre-1815' in Sir John Soane and London, 2006, p.74
P. Dean, 'The Royal Hospital Chelsea I- Pre-1815' in Sir John Soane and London, 2006, p.74
Level
Drawing
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