[22] Copy of a design for the ground floor with alterations by Soane, 23 July 1801

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  - London: 90 Fleet Street, City of London: new banking house for William Praed, 1801 (59)
    - Alterations to the approved design, July 1801 (4)

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Reference number

SM 40/2/28

Purpose

[22] Copy of a design for the ground floor with alterations by Soane, 23 July 1801

Aspect

Plan of the Ground Floor with elevation of the rear of the back shop, elevation of the west wall of the front shop, section through the rear rooms and detail of a lunette window

Scale

bar scale of 3/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, Mess^rs Praeds & C^o / Fleet Street, labelled: C (twice), D, Lobby to Shop, Door / to / House / & / Back Shop, E, Seat, Front Shop, B, Recess for / Fire Place / &^c, Passage to House / & / Offices &^c, A, Arch (7 times), Recess, Q^y Window, Q^y Pipe, Strong Closet, equal (twice), Q^y flue / in / Staircase, Staircase (twice), Square, Back Shop, Lintel (twice), Water Closet / in / the Half Story, Flue, Nothing over this / Room, Leave a toothing, (in Soane's hand) Basem^t A small window / with plates of / Iron in mid of / Shutter // B Door three feet wide / with plates of Iron / in middle of the / same & lined with / Iron next the Kitchen // CC Small windows (18 In wide) / with shutters as at A // D Door into Warehouse / 2½ thick in two thick- [cut off] / with plates of Iron in / middle solid pannels / --- flush & lined with / plates of Iron on the / inside / Paved as Brick Drains // Remember Bring in Air / under floor from / D to B / the same Ch^y ----- / to be continued to the / Kitchen Ch^y & from thence / to the flue E and dimensions given

Signed and dated

23 July 1801
Copy Lincolns Inn Fields 23 July 1801 and (in Soane's hand) LIF / Aug 18 1801

Medium and dimensions

Pen, brown pen, sepia and light red washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper with two fold marks (681 x 559)

Hand

Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808.
Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837)

Watermark

WL 1794

Notes

Copy of drawing [20], with alterations by Soane including the addition of a strong closet. A rough elevation of the west wall of the front shop shows three blind arches. Soane's alterations are dated 'Aug 18 1801'.

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Drawing

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