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Wilderness Park (now Dorton House), near Sevenoaks, Kent, c.1811
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Reference number
SM D2/10/7
Purpose
Wilderness Park (now Dorton House), near Sevenoaks, Kent, c.1811
Aspect
[2] (Design B) Ground floor plan
Scale
1/7 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
(house) The attick story to be taken off [that is, the proposed bedroom floor], build over this ---- [illegible] & bed chambers above, rooms labelled including (house) Dining room, Drawing room, Breakfast / room, Hall & / Principal / Stairs, Lords Study, Back Stairs and Ladys Dressing / room and (offices) Coppers, Washouse, Laundry with Mangle, Folding Table and Ironing Board, Housekeeper, Still room, Lords, Powdering / room, Servants / Hall, Under Butler, Engine, Butler, Scullery, Kitchen, Pastry, Salting / Pans, Dry / Larder, Wet / Larder, Bakehouse, Oven, Coals, Childrens Playroom, Childrens / Bedroom, Governess and Lord & Lady's Bedroom (these four rooms with a view of the Flower Garden) and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- c.1811
Medium and dimensions
Pen and light red wash, pricked for transfer on laid paper with one old patch attached with red sealing wax (675 x 950)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
J Whatman
Notes
The plan of the existing house (washed like the office wing and proposed additions in a light red wash so that nothing is distinguished as old or new work) corresponds to that shown in Design A though there are cancellation marks against a bow-fronted vestibule on the principal (west) front (roughed in on the earlier design) and the principal stair, and there are pencil additions including a Library, Dressing Rm and Small Green House on the right-hand (south) side. However, another Courtyard has been introduced east of the existing one, providing kitchen accommodation and, on the house side, a 'Childrens Play room' and 'Childrens / Bedroom' and a room for the 'Governess' as well as the 'Lord & Lady's / Bedroom'. Design B thus does away with the need for an extra floor to the house.
Level
Drawing
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