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 D1/1/14

Purpose

Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07

Aspect

[179] Plan of offices and part-plan of house

Scale

1/10 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

labelled (W wing) Housekeeper, Housekeeper's / Bed room, Maids room, Proposed Servants Hall / now the Kitchen, China room, Still room, (stable) Three Stalls, Four Stalls, Two Stalls, Five Stall Stable, Six Stall Stable, Hay, Pump, Harness, Coach House (twice), Sick Horses, Stable Yard, some dimensions given and (verso, Dance) S^r Francis Baring Bar^t, (pencil, Carter) part of Plan of Stratton / also the Plantations round / the Offices
Signed: Geo:Dance
Dated: Nov^r 1806

Signed and dated

1803-07

Medium and dimensions

Pen, green earth, yellow ochre, crimson and sepia washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper (665 x 995)

Hand

Dance, Carter

Watermark

J Whatman 1801

Notes

The plan is related to an outline plan of the offices (on the versos of [SM D1/3/2] and [SM D1/4/29]) inscribed ([SM D1/3/2] verso) These dimensions taken April 4^th 1807 / w^h James Carter and signed GD that shows an L-shaped stable block to the northwest, a long rectangular laundry to the southwest with a brewhouse beyond, and a kitchen with scullery and larder in a long block to the west of the house with pantries in two smaller blocks. Covered ways link the offices to each other and to the house. [SM D1/1/14] is a more detailed plan than [SM D1/3/2] and [SM D1/4/29] versos. The part-plan of the house shows the still room, china room, housekeeper's rooms and new servants' hall in what was the kitchen - all in the old west wing.

Plantation[s] to the north, west and south conceal the offices. Dance notes the position of five existing trees on the south side and embellishes the plantation there with a flower border facing the Carriage road.

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Drawing

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