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Reference number
SM D3/9/5
Purpose
Mount Stewart, County Down, Northern Ireland, 1803-04
Aspect
[5] Ground floor plan and W elevation
Scale
1/15 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
Lord Londonderry, labelled The Sea, Coach road (twice), Coach Portico, Music room, Library, Present Drawing room, Cellar, Dressing / room / Butlers Room, Lord L / room, Hall and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 1803-04
Medium and dimensions
Pen, Indian red, sepia and blue washes, shaded, within single ruled border, pricked for transfer on coarse laid paper (320 x 305)
Hand
Dance
Notes
The plan has shrunk by about 12 feet on the north or entrance side, reducing the accommodation between it and the 'Present Drawing room' in the southeast wing; the west wing remains the same as in [SM D3/9/4] except that it has been moved southwards and westwards. The stair is now on an east/west axis, that is, as built except that the built stair has a central flight with double return and Dance's plan shows a half-turn stair with landings. The music room's chimney-piece below a window is shown more clearly. In both plans the three new reception rooms are enfilade. The west elevation shows a two-storey seven-bay front, the pedimented centre bay slightly projecting and with a simple three-part window on the first floor above a Wyatt window.
Dr Anne Casement, Ballycastle (telephone conversation, 29 October 2002) confirmed that Dance's design for the west elevation was carried out.
The drawing has been folded several times and is water-stained and worn.
REPRODUCED. C. E. B. Brett, Buildings of North Country Down, Belfast, 2002, p.99.
Dr Anne Casement, Ballycastle (telephone conversation, 29 October 2002) confirmed that Dance's design for the west elevation was carried out.
The drawing has been folded several times and is water-stained and worn.
REPRODUCED. C. E. B. Brett, Buildings of North Country Down, Belfast, 2002, p.99.
Level
Drawing
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