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Reference number
SM D1/5/5
Purpose
Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07
Aspect
[4] Rough outline plans and section with additional storey
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
as above, calculations, 66 Square (feet) to be rais'd 8Ft 4in / and a new roof / @ 3300, New building 12600 / raising Story / Old & roof 3300 / Portico 1000 / Staircase 1000 / 17900 / Stucco, (pencil) Snow Hill Rolfe / Do pavement, dimensions given and (verso, Dance) Stratton
Signed and dated
- 1803-07
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil on wove paper (525 x 400)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
1794 J Whatman
Notes
Dance also estimates the cost of the three new rooms marked A, B and C. A measured 34 by 23 feet at £782; B was 35 by 19 feet at £665; and C was 100 by 27 feet 6 inches at £2,750, total £4,197 or £41.97 per square foot or say 42 Square @ £250 (crossed out) £300 = 10,,500 (crossed out) 12600. The total estimated cost, adding on £3,300 for an extra storey to the existing building marked D, E, F, a new portico and new staircase comes to £17,900 with Stucco not priced.
'Snow Hill' was one of the two western approaches to the City of London. Dance was concerned with a scheme for improvements for this area (see Stroud pp. 186-8 and a demonstration drawing of London Bridge). In Soane's Letter Book 1802-15 (pp.33-4) is a copy of a letter dated 15 September from Soane in reply to Dance about the business of Mr / Rolfe on Snow Hill ... the opinion I gave to you & your / Colleagues Messrs Cockerell & Lewis in Aldersgate / Street was my opinion then, is now, & will be .... Soane's Notebook for 29 June-29 July has entries regarding Snow Hill and Mr Rolfe; he met Dance, Cockerell and Lewis at Snow Hill on 29 July and was in Margate from 10 to 14 September.
William Rolfe, a builder and speculator, had three lots assigned to him on the plan for Finsbury Square, London, July 1789 ([SM D4/6/5]). He further invested in the development of the Finsbury Estate in 1790 (Stroud, p.138) and was, for example, the builder for Dance's additions to Guildhall Yard, 1795 (Stroud p.122). S. Jeffery (The Mansion House, 1993, pp.209, 225) mentions Rolfe as a contractor for works at the Mansion House in 1794 and 1795-6.
Verso
Faint plan (not Stratton)
Pencil, pricked for transfer
'Snow Hill' was one of the two western approaches to the City of London. Dance was concerned with a scheme for improvements for this area (see Stroud pp. 186-8 and a demonstration drawing of London Bridge). In Soane's Letter Book 1802-15 (pp.33-4) is a copy of a letter dated 15 September from Soane in reply to Dance about the business of Mr / Rolfe on Snow Hill ... the opinion I gave to you & your / Colleagues Messrs Cockerell & Lewis in Aldersgate / Street was my opinion then, is now, & will be .... Soane's Notebook for 29 June-29 July has entries regarding Snow Hill and Mr Rolfe; he met Dance, Cockerell and Lewis at Snow Hill on 29 July and was in Margate from 10 to 14 September.
William Rolfe, a builder and speculator, had three lots assigned to him on the plan for Finsbury Square, London, July 1789 ([SM D4/6/5]). He further invested in the development of the Finsbury Estate in 1790 (Stroud, p.138) and was, for example, the builder for Dance's additions to Guildhall Yard, 1795 (Stroud p.122). S. Jeffery (The Mansion House, 1993, pp.209, 225) mentions Rolfe as a contractor for works at the Mansion House in 1794 and 1795-6.
Verso
Faint plan (not Stratton)
Pencil, pricked for transfer
Level
Drawing
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