Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Country Houses (31)
  - Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07 (186). Survey drawings, preliminary designs, presentation design not as executed, revised design and working drawings for reconstruction for Sir Francis Baring Bart

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Reference number

SM D1/5/4

Purpose

Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07

Aspect

[1] Rough block plan

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

The old House, The part to the East which is crossed has been / demolished - there is no Entrance to the front which / is due South, but there is a door on the ground floor / to the East marked = to communicate with the pleasure ground. / on the North the ground has been raised level with the principal / floor for the purpose of entering throug a window into a billiard room, labelled present Entrance / through a window, Entrance (against portico with five columns), N point and (Dance) Sir Francis Baring Bar^t / his sketch

Signed and dated

1803-07

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, pencil on laid secretary paper (200 x 315)

Hand

Baring, Dance

Watermark

Britannia with spear, shield and olive branch in crowned roundel

Notes

Baring's outline plan gives the half-H plan of the house with the eastern part crossed out.

Verso
Rough ground floor plan by Baring showing disposition of the rooms in the part of the house still remaining
Inscribed: The Wing is about 96 feet from / N^o. to S^o. unless a better plan / can be suggested it is proposed / to divide it into three / (plan labelled 34ft / drawing, ante / nearly square and 34ft / eating room) / I forget the breadth of the Wing but it is about / 21 feet within - the rest of the floor / is lofty, for the size of the room, & / will accord with the dimensions proposed. / I forget the length of the front, & the / depth of the center, rooms labelled including Boudoir, Library, my room, dressing / room, best bed / room, water / closet, Nursery, anti to the / parlor, parlor / or / eating room, drawing / room, Billiard / room, present entrance, duke's / room, best / stairs and (Dance) Stratton, Sir Francis Baring's / first sketch

The wing that Baring refers to as about 96 feet from north to south is the demolished east wing which he proposes to replace with drawing and dining rooms with an anteroom between them. The 'present entrance' via a window on to raised ground is in the billiard room which is on the north side along with the drawing and duke's room.

Baring did not waste time or words in his communication with Dance. Farington wrote in his diary (25 August 1807) 'writes like a quaker, plain explicit all but Threadbare'.

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Drawing

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