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Reference number
SM D2/1/36
Purpose
Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14
Aspect
[4] Ground floor plan, section including stair with lantern, part-elevation/section of N side and rough detail of compound beam
Scale
Scale 1/8 of an Inch to th Foot
Inscribed
as above, Whatever is to be taken down or removed / is distinguished by a light tint of Blue, All additions of Brickwork, filling old / apertures or making new ones are denoted / by a tint of Red (that is, pink), rooms labelled Library, New dressing room, water / closet, Great Hall, Drawing room, Steward's new / Eating room, new Pantry for / under Butler, new / water closet, conservatory projected, Back Stairs, Kitchen, dimensions given and (Carter?, pencil) 16-6 Height from Paveing at door leading to Hall to top of / one pair of stairs floor / 13:0 Height from one pair to top of attic floor / 8:10 Height from floor to Cieling in Passage next front room
Signed: GD
Dated: Feby 4th 1(cut, 1813?)
Signed and dated
- 1813-14
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pink, blue, mauve and raw umber washes, pencil pricked for transfer, on wove paper (655 x 780)
Hand
Dance, Carter?
Notes
On plan, the house is rectangular with pavilions at the northeast and southeast corners and rectangular projections at each end of the rear (west) side that on the south side has been lengthened by a large kitchen. The other offices are not shown.
Dance left the Georgian suite of enfilade rooms on the east side undisturbed save for a new dressing room and water closet added to the west side of the library occupying the southeast pavilion, the stair of which is labelled these Stairs altered. Partitions are to be removed for the new stair behind the Great Hall that was probably part of 'the entrance forecourt of the Charles II building, which had been enclosed by the addition of the main front' (C. Hussey, 'Ashburnham Place, Sussex', Country Life, CXIII, 1953, p.1337). Dance's proposals included the dining room on the north front which was to have three tall windows, a billiard room also on the north front and to be made from an existing room, and a conservatory proposed for its west side. No indication is given of refacing the house.
Dance left the Georgian suite of enfilade rooms on the east side undisturbed save for a new dressing room and water closet added to the west side of the library occupying the southeast pavilion, the stair of which is labelled these Stairs altered. Partitions are to be removed for the new stair behind the Great Hall that was probably part of 'the entrance forecourt of the Charles II building, which had been enclosed by the addition of the main front' (C. Hussey, 'Ashburnham Place, Sussex', Country Life, CXIII, 1953, p.1337). Dance's proposals included the dining room on the north front which was to have three tall windows, a billiard room also on the north front and to be made from an existing room, and a conservatory proposed for its west side. No indication is given of refacing the house.
Level
Drawing
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