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 D1/3/14

Purpose

Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07

Aspect

[115] Plan with elevations of two walls, unfinished

Scale

½ Inch Scale

Inscribed

as above, door widths labelled, that is, this door to be / 9.10 by 4.8 / between Jamb linings (two doors on W side of hall), Jib Door 9..10 by 4..8 / between Jamb linings and This door to be 11..8 by 5.10 (NE and SE doors), dimensions given and (verso, Dance) Plan of Hall of Communication and (pencil, Carter) Drawings / Hall of Communication / Stratton
Dated: Dec 4^th 1804

Signed and dated

1803-07

Medium and dimensions

Brown and red pen, light red, raw umber and yellow washes, pencil on thin wove paper (550 x 690)

Hand

Dance, Carter

Watermark

WL 1794

Notes

The plan is of a rectangular hall, marked 37 feet 10½ inches wide, with a glazed screen at the north end, ten feet wide, flanked by skewed alcoves. Five doors open off the hall: two east doors (to the library and drawing room) and two west doors (to the dining room and corridor / gallery) arranged on axes and a south door (to the breakfast room); a shallow barrel-vaulted ceiling is indicated. In C. R. Cockerell's 'Ichnographia Domestica' (see the general notes), the north end of the hall is labelled 'Billiards'.

Verso
Rough faint pencil perspective of N end of hall

Level

Drawing

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