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Reference number
SM D2/5/29
Purpose
Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14
Aspect
[86] Longitudinal section through three floors with details of the stair
Scale
½ in to 1 ft
Inscribed
12Ft Radius, No.34 Risers 512/17In, dimensions given and calculations.
Signed and dated
- 1813-14
Medium and dimensions
Black and red pen, pink and sepia washes, pencil on wove paper (585 x 875)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
J Whatman 1810
Notes
The floor heights are marked 16 feet 2½ inches (ground floor), 13 feet 11 inches (first floor) and 8 feet 10 inches (second floor).
Verso
Plan of a dairy with a Greek cross plan and with octagonal or chamfered-square centre with four corner alcoves
Scale: ½ in to 1ft
Red pen, pencil
The building is small: internally, the domed centre is 10 feet 6 inches square, the wings 5 feet wide and the overall length of the building is 30 feet 6 inches (the walls are 1 foot 6 inches thick). Windows have been roughed in for two of the wings, shelves line the walls, and there is a drain.
Dance's design was not executed and Samuel Reynolds took over (letter of 7 January 1815, ASH 2892). Accounts from the mason, Robert Spiller, for work done under the direction of Reynolds, 18 January to 16 December 1815, are largely to do with the dairy and mostly involve the re-using of old marble including old marble tables from the entrance hall, with another bill signed 'Exd [examined] James Carter' (ASH 2835). Presumably a 'lash up' job was speedier and less expensive than Dance's Neo-Classical proposal and in any case Lord Ashburnham and his architect had a falling out about this time.
Verso
Plan of a dairy with a Greek cross plan and with octagonal or chamfered-square centre with four corner alcoves
Scale: ½ in to 1ft
Red pen, pencil
The building is small: internally, the domed centre is 10 feet 6 inches square, the wings 5 feet wide and the overall length of the building is 30 feet 6 inches (the walls are 1 foot 6 inches thick). Windows have been roughed in for two of the wings, shelves line the walls, and there is a drain.
Dance's design was not executed and Samuel Reynolds took over (letter of 7 January 1815, ASH 2892). Accounts from the mason, Robert Spiller, for work done under the direction of Reynolds, 18 January to 16 December 1815, are largely to do with the dairy and mostly involve the re-using of old marble including old marble tables from the entrance hall, with another bill signed 'Exd [examined] James Carter' (ASH 2835). Presumably a 'lash up' job was speedier and less expensive than Dance's Neo-Classical proposal and in any case Lord Ashburnham and his architect had a falling out about this time.
Level
Drawing
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