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Wilderness Park (now Dorton House), near Sevenoaks, Kent, c.1811
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Reference number
SM D2/10/8
Purpose
Wilderness Park (now Dorton House), near Sevenoaks, Kent, c.1811
Aspect
[1] (Design A) Plan of the One Pair of Stairs Floor / of Wilderness, the Seat of / Earl Camden and front elevation of house and offices
Scale
1/7 in to 1ft
Inscribed
as above, NB The additions & alterations / are coloured Red / The old Walls are distinguished / by a tint of Indian ink and rooms labelled including Bed chamber (three times), Dressing room (three times), Best / Stairs, Back Stairs
Signed and dated
- c.1811
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and light red washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on laid paper (665 x 980)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
J Whatman
Notes
The existing house (washed in sepia while the office and bedroom wings are in light red) has a six-part villa plan, 78 feet wide by 64 feet deep, seven-bays wide with the middle three bays recessed by nearly 5 feet. The offices are arranged around the three sides of an Office Court, 96 feet wide and, on the side next to the house, are family bedrooms, a dressing room and water closet, and on the other two sides are bedrooms for Men Servants and Women Servants - well separated. The front (west) elevation shows the proposed additional second floor to the house distinguished by a sepia wash. The office wing is shown with the upper of two floors similarly distinguished giving the impression that the ground floor exists already. On plan and elevation it is shown as seven-bays wide with a two-bay link wing.
Level
Drawing
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