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Inscribed
Plan of the £4 P. cent Office, The Bank, The whole of the room / was paved underneath / the floor with york stone / 2 Inches thick / The ground was very loose / and rather damp, none of these beams were raised above the pavement, and / were very much rotted on the under part, girder (twice), This dimension is to the solid wall 6'4:5½", wall plate, Water / Pipe (twice), brick foundation under the stove, To the wall, flue,78'.9" to the Plaster, 46':0" to the wall, (pencil) to the solid wall, 65':1" to the wall and some dimensions given
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Hand
Soane office
Notes
This drawing shows part of the timber floor structure and includes a plan of the heating system which originates under the central stove. On 23 May 1790 the Building Commitee minutes show that Soane was asked to install two new stoves in the 3 per cent Consols Annuities Offices (as the south and south-east corner offices were then called). Separate water pipes are also shown - two vertical water pipes are shown at the two longitudinal walls - which must have heated the upper parts of the hall. The inscriptions indicate the poor condition of the timber structure - one of the reasons for Soane's re-design of these offices.
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