[3] Design for a two and a half-storey lodge

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Tortworth Court (Gloucestershire): unexecuted designs for a pair of gate lodges in a Castle style for Lord Ducie and design for a prospect tower 1796 (12)

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Reference number

SM 62/8/30

Purpose

[3] Design for a two and a half-storey lodge

Aspect

Ground floor plan and front elevation

Scale

(plan) bar scale of 1/16 inch to 1 foot (elevation) bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

The Right Hon^bleLord Ducie

Signed and dated

00/11/1796
Lincolns Inn Fields Nov^r 1796
00/11/1796
Lincolns Inn Fields Nov^r 1796

Medium and dimensions

Pen, raw umber, sepia and light red washes, shaded with single ruled border on thin laid paper with 1 crease mark (370 x 482)

Hand

Soane office hand (no entry in Day Book)

Watermark

IV fleur de lis

Notes

The twin lodges have each a stretched quadrant plan with a room and a hallway with stair. The elevation is two bays wide with the outer bay buttressed and extended into a turret with castellation supported by a corbel course.

Level

Drawing

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