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Wilderness Park (now Dorton House), near Sevenoaks, Kent, c.1811
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Reference number
SM D2/10/6
Purpose
Wilderness Park (now Dorton House), near Sevenoaks, Kent, c.1811
Aspect
[6] (Design D) Ground floor plan
Scale
1/7 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
rooms labelled including Hall, Lord Camden's / Room, Library, Drawing Room, Anti Room, Office Court
Signed and dated
- c.1811
Medium and dimensions
Black and brown pen, sepia, warm sepia and raw umber washes, within broad ruled border. pricked for transfer on laid paper, two sheets joined (595 x 830)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
Portal & Bridges and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and GR below (twice)
Notes
The house and most of the office wing are washed in sepia with alterations and additions washed in light red and warm sepia. Design D is more modest than Designs B and C, there is no portico and no bow and the main alteration is that the stair (as in Design C and roughed in on Design B) has been moved from the centre front compartment to the middle of the left-hand (north side). The office court now has a Servants Hall and Stewards Room built on to it. It seems that either the extra bedrooms and children's accommodation have been dropped or, more likely, that a second storey is to be added.
Level
Drawing
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