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  • image SM D2/1/35

Reference number

SM D2/1/35

Purpose

Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Aspect

[9] Plan of first or bedroom floor of house

Scale

1/8 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

Floor of proposed (cut), rooms labelled including Lady Ashburnham's / Boudoir over the library, Upper part of Great Hall, Present Nursery / over the Kitchen and Covering of the Portico

Signed and dated

  • 1813-14

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, blue and pink washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper (515 x 580)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

J W (cut)

Notes

This bedroom plan seems to belong with [SM D2/1/37] though, for example, turrets have not been added. Blue wash is used here to indicate new work including the principal stair, the Stairs leading / to Attics, two new water closets and an additional dressing room. Four rooms are labelled bedroom and another three, unlabelled, are presumably bedrooms. Lady Ashburnham's boudoir, dressing room and water closet (this last, reached also from the library on the ground floor) are in the southeast pavilion adjacent to her bedroom on the east front while in the northeast pavilion is a bedroom with adjacent dressing room. There were, of course, further bedrooms on the attic floor.

Level

Drawing

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