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Variant design for a six-part villa in a Classical style 78 by 81 feet based on a design by an unidentified architect, c.1811-12
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Reference number
SM D2/8/41
Purpose
Variant design for a six-part villa in a Classical style 78 by 81 feet based on a design by an unidentified architect, c.1811-12
Aspect
[4] First floor plan of house and links to offices
Scale
1/5 in to 1 ft
Signed and dated
- c.1811-12
Medium and dimensions
Pen and raw umber wash, pencil, trace lines, pricked for transfer on laid paper (510 x 440)
Hand
Dance
Notes
These plans ([SM D2/8/42] and [SM D2/8/41]) are for a house with a porte-cochere and a bowed entrance leading into a deep hall with four steps fronting a two-column screen beyond which is a square, top-lit inner hall giving on to each of the six compartments and to the off-centre stair (and offices) to the right. The first floor, reached by the off-centre stair, reflects the same arrangement with six bedrooms leading off a gallery above the square inner hall. No corridors are needed.
The fenestration is a little odd: six windows on the left flank of the house light two ground floor rooms whose tripartite windows on the front and back are blind, as are those of the corresponding bedrooms above them. The corresponding two ground floor rooms on the other side of the house are lit by a single tripartite window each. The anonymous architect also had a number of blind windows; Dance's are not regularised.
The fenestration is a little odd: six windows on the left flank of the house light two ground floor rooms whose tripartite windows on the front and back are blind, as are those of the corresponding bedrooms above them. The corresponding two ground floor rooms on the other side of the house are lit by a single tripartite window each. The anonymous architect also had a number of blind windows; Dance's are not regularised.
Level
Drawing
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