Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Country Houses (31)
  - Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14 (193). Survey drawings, alternative designs, designs and working drawings for alterations and additions, including the modelling of the principal front, a new staircase and for a garden bridge, for 3rd Earl Ashburnham

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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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