1/10 in to 1 ft

rooms labelled including Mr Tate's / Bed room and dimensions given

• c.1817

Pen, sepia, blue-grey and pink washes, pencil, plans pricked for transfer on wove paper (345 x 480, flier 130 x 210, cut to shape)

Dance

J Whatman 1816

From J. T. Parkinson's 'Present Elevation' it can be seen that the house in 1817 had two storeys with an attic in the central core that was three bays wide. On the left was a single-bay, two-storey addition with the same red-tiled roof and added on to this a slate-roofed single-storey service wing. To the right of the centre three bays was a later two-bay, two-storey addition with a slate roof. Dance has used sepia and pink washes and hatching for different parts of the plan which was originally one room deep. Sepia indicates the existing plan, hatching his first idea, pink wash his second idea while the flier shows his third idea. The first scheme adds a Hall / and / Staircase on an elliptical plan, as well as a Butler's room and Servants / Bedroom, to the front of the existing house; the plan of the flier substitutes more modest additions of a canted Porch and Covered Passage only.

The elevation shows a two-storey, nine-bay, asymmetrical, battlemented front - the centre with a crow-stepped gable. The windows are pointed-arched or square-headed with hood moulds and there is an ornate door and porch in the centre. Attached is the existing low five-bay service wing now fronted by a covered walkway and with a servants' hall added.

Drawing

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