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Reference number
SM D2/9/20
Purpose
Camden Place, Kent, 1807
Aspect
[2] Ground floor plan of house showing earlier house and Dance's addition of c.1788 and of stables converted to offices with drainage shown
Scale
1/6 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
rooms labelled including Eating Room, Anti Parlour, Entrance Hall, Sitting Parlour, Vestibule, Library, Drawing Room, Best Stairs and Back Stairs, dimensions given and (verso, Dance) Plan of Camden Place
Signed and dated
- 1807
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and pink washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper, one old patch (595 x 960)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
J Rus (obscured by patch) 1804
Notes
On the plan, the conversion of the northwest stable block to kitchen, laundry, brewhouse and other domestic offices is washed in pink suggesting that this is a proposal; while the house plan is washed in sepia, that is, as if extant. However, the plan shows the entrance removed from the south front where Dance apparently placed it c.1788 (as indicated on [SM D2/9/19]) and returned to its original location on the east front. The south entrance and semi-circular stair and hall have been replaced by an elliptical library. The octagonal vestibule remains but with some small alterations. Instead of the Coleorton arrangement of the entrance hall on axis with a polygonal hall with the stair to one side, the sequence here is of entrance hall leading to the stair with an octagonal vestibule on one side of the stair.
Level
Drawing
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