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 D2/3/29

Purpose

Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Aspect

[154] Details of cornice and architrave

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Mouldings full size round the opening of folding Doors / leading into the great Eating room - Ashburnham Place / for M^r Russell and (verso, Dance) Ashburnham
Signed: GD
Dated: March 6th 1814

Signed and dated

1813-14

Medium and dimensions

Pen, and pink wash, pencil, partly pricked for transfer on laid paper (480 x 685)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D & C Blauw and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and WR below

Notes

Placed on the south side of the dining room and opening out into the staircase hall, each leaf of the double door was 2 feet 5 inches wide and hinged at a point 9 inches within the jamb allowing it to lie flat, when open, within the 4 feet deep, back-lined sides of the doorway.

National Monuments Record photographs (1953) of the then 'large dining room' show it with a pair of columns with Bassae Ionic capitals and windows running the length of one side of the room rather than on the short north side. Other reception rooms recorded by the National Monuments Record Office do not tally with Dance's dining room and it may have been swept away when the north front was re-modelled in 1853.

Level

Drawing

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