[34] Plan for ground floor

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Ramsey Abbey, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire): alterations and additions for W.H.Fellowes, 1804-07 (60)
    - Plans made 29 November, 15 December 1804 (4)

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Reference number

SM 46/5/32

Purpose

[34] Plan for ground floor

Aspect

Plan for the Principal floor

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, W.H.Fellowes Esq^re, labelled Vestibule, Water Closet, Evidence / Room, Library, Cloisters (twice), Withdrawing Room, Anti / Room, Best Staircase, Common Staircase, Eating Room and M^r Fellowes' / Room

Signed and dated

15/12/1804
Lincolns Inn Fields December 15^th 1804

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash with triple ruled and sepia wash border, pricked for transfer, on wove paper (478 x 677)

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

1801

Notes

Comparison with earlier drawings for the first floor ([9]-[11]) shows the same disposition of rooms but, for example, the projecting entrance lobby now has a circular form and the back entrance has disappeared while an extra buttress to the south side has been added for symmetry.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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