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[199] Record drawing of the design for a single-storey design (as executed), 3 July 1818
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Reference number
SM 67/1/17
Purpose
[199] Record drawing of the design for a single-storey design (as executed), 3 July 1818
Aspect
Elevation of the Front of the Gardener's House at Chelsea (east front)
Scale
bar scale
Inscribed
as above and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- July 3d. 1818.
Hand
Soane office
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 shows the east front with a window, two blind windows and a window, as shown on the previous plan (SM 67/1/16). A three-part arcade joins Soane's building to the (just visible) corner of a Wren building (constructed in red brick, with stone quoining at the corner).
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'.
A preliminary sketch for the drawing is in the SM Archives (Priv.Corr.IX.J.32-34).
This drawing shows the east front with a window, two blind windows and a window, as shown on the previous plan (SM 67/1/16). A three-part arcade joins Soane's building to the (just visible) corner of a Wren building (constructed in red brick, with stone quoining at the corner).
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'.
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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