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Reference number

SM D2/9/19

Purpose

Camden Place, Kent, 1807

Aspect

[1] Rough survey plan of ground floor, part-section through SW addition and rough wall elevation of octagonal vestibule

Scale

(plan) 1/10 in to 1 ft approximately

Inscribed

Grd Floor, Section and dimensions given including some floor-to-ceiling heights

Signed and dated

  • 1807

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, pencil on laid paper (510 x 400)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

IV and fleur-de-lis with W

Notes

Dance's survey shows the earlier seven-bay houses facing east marked 62.5 feet wide with a kitchen wing to the northwest and additions to south and southwest (presumably Dance's work of c.1788). This consisted of a reception room 22.0 by 30.0 with a shallow bow-front at its south end and a southwest wing with octagonal vestibule, an entrance facing south with hall and semicircular stair, and a bow-fronted reception room 30.1 by 21.2 by high 15.0 facing westwards.

Level

Drawing

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