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Reference number

SM 78/6/12 verso

Purpose

[16] Design (office copy) for stairs and flues at Anniston House as executed, 1785

Aspect

Section of a kitchen showing three stoves and their flues. There are two larger stoves or ranges and one smaller. A section through the flue of each is also shown. In the centre of the sheet are exploded elevations of a staircase in a side wing, with ground levels and floor heights showing how they connect into the main block

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

No. 28 / Anniston House, John Rait Esqr / Sections of kitchen stoves /
(top right): Steam Vent, Jack, Steam Vent, A, Range B, C Stoves, Ash hole
(bottom right): B, Ash-hole, Jack
(bottom left) A, Steam Vent is Copper
(top left) C, Section of the Steam Vent for Stoves with some dimension given
Stairs in the Kitchen Wing / labelled: Ceiling, height of landing, Private Door to Study, Showing how the Doorway goes thro the wall, A Doorway, Floor Levell, Ground Level, Kitchen Level, Level of Floor; Garret Door, Garret Ceiling, Kitchen Door, Ground Level, Level of Kitchen Floor; Outward Door Sashed, llevel; [illegible] Kitchen Level, Ground Level, Butlers Pantry Side, Mezannine floor, Mezannine Door, Garrett floor, garret Door, Ceiling

Signed and dated

  • 1785
    Datable to 1785. The drawing has an office numbering which fits with other dated sheets in the collection.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (521x656)

Hand

Playfair, James (1755--1794) - Art collections

Notes

The sections of the kitchen chimneys appear to have been drawn to fit around the exploded elevations of the staircase on the sheet. In the top right-hand corner of the sheet the section is in places drawn over the staircase elevations.

Level

Drawing

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