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 D1/1/19

Purpose

Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07

Aspect

[185] Plan, elevation and cross-section of Laundry, Washouse and Brewhouse

Scale

Scale ¼ Inch to the Foot

Inscribed

as above, paralell line at 20f^t distance from / front of House, (pencil, Carter) Flue, Copper, (Dance) dimensions given, calculations and (verso, Dance) Stratton / Laundry, Washouse & Brewhouse, Kitchen Scullery / &c / also / Washouse Laundry & Brewhouse

Signed and dated

1803-07

Medium and dimensions

Pen, crimson, sepia and raw umber washes, pencil on laid paper (660 x 835)

Hand

Dance, Carter

Watermark

D & C Blauw IV and D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis

Notes

The drawing shows a single-storey building 89 feet long, with a through passage between wash-house and brewhouse; the section shows a king-post truss. The design relates to the plan shown on [SM D1/1/14] and [SM D1/1/22] where the laundry/brewhouse is sited to the south of the stables and separated from the kitchen by drying grounds with rows of square-sectioned poles for clothes lines. There are no National Monuments photographs of this building but considering Carter's small additions to Dance's drawing, it seems very likely that the laundry was executed to this design.

Verso
Rough H-plan and elevation of five-bay, three-storey building fronted by a giant portico in antis and with two-storey pavilion wings
Pencil

NOTES ON [SM D1/1/14], [SM D1/1/22], [SM D1/1/17], [SM D1/1/20], [SM D1/1/21], [SM D1/1/18] AND [SM D1/1/19]
The original Stratton Park of 1731 had the kitchen and some other offices located on the ground floor with cellars and storage below. Certainly, Dance's survey and design plans show nothing of any existing offices or, indeed, stables, beyond the envelope of the house except that [SM D1/1/13] has a lobby outside the scullery labelled 'to Outhouses'. And yet, stables with coach houses would have been essential. Presumably, when the Duke of Bedford demolished the portico and nine-bays of the 15-bay house he also had all of the stables and any external offices taken down, thus ensuring that none of his family, save for the most determined, would ever want to stay at Stratton..

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