[38] Plan and elevatiion

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  - Ramsey Abbey, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire): alterations and additions for W.H.Fellowes, 1804-07 (60)
    - Design for additions to lodge house, 22 June 1805

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Reference number

SM 62/8/47

Purpose

[38] Plan and elevatiion

Aspect

The Plan and Elevation

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

as above, W.H.Fellowes Esq^r, Ramsey, Gate and Foot Gate

Signed and dated

22/06/1805
Lincolns Inn Fields / June 22^nd 1805

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and light red washes, pricked for transfer, on laid paper (465 x 400)

Hand

Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808. The Soane office Day Book has 'Mr W H Fellowes Esq^re / Sent to him by to days / post a drawing of a Design for / an Entrance at Ramsey', probably written by Seward.

Notes

The existing two-storey lodge house (largely concealed in the drawing by trees and bushes) has two single storey rooms added to its front and is given a Tudoresque window and castellated parapet. The gate piers are flat-topped and cruciform in plan.

Evidently, the lodge was not executed see P.Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.190.

Level

Drawing

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