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Norman Court, West Tytheley, Hampshire, 1810
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Reference number
SM D1/10/13
Purpose
Norman Court, West Tytheley, Hampshire, 1810
Aspect
[8] (Design C) Ground floor plan of house and offices, unfinished front elevation and part-side elevation of house
Scale
1/8 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
as above, rooms labelled including Mr Walls / room [next door to] Childrens room, Hall of entrance, Eating room, Breakfast / or / Billiard room, Drawing room, Library, Polygon Hal, Principal Stairs, Back Stairs, Powder, Water / Closet, Yard (three times), Servants Hall, Plate, Butler, Housekeeper, Store room, Stillroom, Kitchen, Scullery, Pastry, Larder, Pantry (twice), Scullery, Coals, Portico for Carriages and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 1810
Medium and dimensions
Pen, burnt umber, blue and pink washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper (665 x 995)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
J Whatman 1801
Notes
The plan of the house is close to that shown in Design B except, for example, the porte-cochere and garden porch. The double-height porte-cochere shown here has 12 Corinthian columns, six wide and four deep, supporting a pedimented roof. The domestic offices are to the west arranged either side of a central Covered Passage that leads into a kitchen court enclosed by a semicircular screen wall.
Level
Drawing
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