[2] Ground floor plan: design No.1

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  - Banbury, Oxfordshire: unexecuted designs for a house for James King, February-March 1805 (9)

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Reference number

SM 3/1/5

Purpose

[2] Ground floor plan: design No.1

Aspect

The Plan of the Principal Floor, Design / N^o1

Scale

to a scale of ¼ inch to1 foot

Inscribed

as above, James King Esq^re, labelled Portico, Entrance, Eating Rooom, Drawing Room, Gentlemans' Room, Closet, Staircase, Water / Closet, Closet for / Great coats, Breakfast Room and dimensiions given including Extent 48':9'' and Extent 47':9''

Signed and dated

02/02/1805
Copy / Lincolns Inn Fields / 2d Feb^ry 1805

Medium and dimensions

Pen and black wash, pricked for transfer, on wove paper (585 x 456)
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Hand

Charles Malton (1788)
Pupil February 1802 - December 1809.

Notes

Of the three designs (see drawings [3] and [4]) this is perhaps the simplest so that each of the four rooms is of a different size with the eating room as the largest.

Level

Drawing

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