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
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  - 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 D2/1/19

Purpose

Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Aspect

[41] Elevation and wall section of one bay of E front including parapet and three windows, and revised profile of cornice and blocking course

Scale

½ in to 1 ft

Inscribed

labelled including Top of new Coping 3^Ft..3ⁱⁿ above the top of the present Blocking, Top of present Blocking, Rodburn (twice), Stone Plinth, dimensions given and calculations

Signed and dated

1813-14

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pink wash, pencil on wove paper (675 x 340)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

J Whatman 1811

Notes

'Rodburn' is written against the 42 feet 2 inches of the three-storey elevation and against the 5 feet 6¼ inches of the area below the 'Top of present Blocking' and may refer to 'Composition Stucco on / Brick Jointed & coloured / in Imitation of Stone' (bill of Francis Bernasconi, 1813-14, ASH 2809). Another of Bernasconi's bills, under 'Outside' day work, includes an item 'as per vouchers given weekly to Mr Rodbourn [sic] for Lathing Lintels & Bond Timbers & repairing Plastering in the old part of house .... Building Scaffolding to the outside & Portals & bringing out Extra thickness to form a Bracket for Moldings and Copings, & Sides of Openings & arches of South Portal, taking off Bricks resetting them in Composition...' (ASH 2828). It seems that Mr Rodbourn (or Rodburn) was a particularly skilled tradesman who made things ready for the plasterers before they arrived on site. He did not patent his composition stucco.

Level

Drawing

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