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Reference number
SM D2/11/2
Purpose
Combe Bank, near Sundridge, Kent, c.1813
Aspect
[8] Plan of the Principal Floor at Combank and (flier) amended design of porte-cochere roof
Scale
1/10 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
as above, 4, rooms labelled including The Great Drawing Room, The Small Drawing Room, The Museum, The Dining Room, The Hall, Sideboard Room, The Library, Study, Bedchamber, Dressing Room and Garden Entrance and dimensions given including height
Signed: Js Basire sculp
Signed and dated
- c.1813
Medium and dimensions
Red pen and pink washes and pencil added, pricked for transfer on wove paper (340 x 485, flier 95 x 110)
Hand
Dance
Notes
There are in the Soane Museum Robert Adam's designs for alterations and additions to Combe Bank, dated 1775-7 (SM, Adam vol.42, 1-6). This plan (and the previous one) shows the two low wings added by Adam that extend from the north side of the house. At basement level these accommodated the housekeeper's bow-fronted room, the kitchen and servants' hall. Above these (on the west side) was a dressing room with a bow and a circular bedchamber with a domical ceiling with, on the east side, a study, library with apsidal ends and ante-room.
Dance has drawn in three-bay additions between the towers on the south and east (entrance) sides. On the north end, in the courtyard between Adam's wings, are shown two rooms over the proposed entrance hall and the roof of the porte-cochere. Internally two stairs have been moved to where the small drawing room and dining room were, the Great Drawing Room now becoming the Eating room.
Dance has drawn in three-bay additions between the towers on the south and east (entrance) sides. On the north end, in the courtyard between Adam's wings, are shown two rooms over the proposed entrance hall and the roof of the porte-cochere. Internally two stairs have been moved to where the small drawing room and dining room were, the Great Drawing Room now becoming the Eating room.
Level
Drawing
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