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Reference number

SM D2/1/38

Purpose

Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Aspect

[24] Ground floor plan of house and offices and elevation of N front of house and offices

Scale

1/8 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

some dimensions given and (verso, Dance) Ashburnham Place / General Plan

Signed and dated

  • 1813-14

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and pink washes, pencil, partly pricked for transfer on wove paper (780 x 1195)

Hand

Dance

Notes

The plan is close to [SM D2/1/37] and probably copied from it. Additional to the earlier drawing is, for example, a more detailed plan for the porte-cochere with buttressed octagonal piers. The elevation corresponds to the unfinished part-elevation of [SM D2/1/37] and to the east elevation of the 'executed design' ([SM D2/1/15] verso and [SM D2/1/7]). It is less innovatory than [SM D2/1/11]: windows are given square hood-moulds except for the new dining room which has three tall, narrow windows separated by slender piers that are drawn with square heads amended, in pencil, to round heads. There are faint pencil elevations for a dairy and? greenhouse; a covered way has been erased.

Level

Drawing

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