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 D1/1/11

Purpose

Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07

Aspect

[5] John Sanderson's principal floor plan and cross-section copied from Vitruvius Britannicus, the plan over-drawn with Dance's proposals

Scale

1/15 in to 1 ft and 1/9 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

some dimensions given and (verso, Dance) Plan of Stratton / from / Vitruvius Brittanicus [sic]

Signed and dated

1803-07

Medium and dimensions

Black and red pen, sepia, pink and crimson washes on wove paper (510 x 435)

Hand

neat printed office hand for copy (same as [SM D1/1/10], [SM D1/1/7] and [SM D1/4/50]), Dance for proposals

Watermark

Russell & Co 1797

Notes

Of Sanderson's house of 1731, with its half-H plan and 15-bay front, the east wing, adjoining rooms and south portico had been demolished leaving only six bays including the southwest pavilion with tripartite window. Dance here proposed a nine-bay front with a new (matching) east wing and a new south portico.

The plan, front elevation and section of Stratton Park were published in J. Woolfe & J. Gandon, Vitruvius Britannicus, IV, 1767, plates 52, 53-4, 55.

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