[11] Design for the basement floor of the new building

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  - London: Fountain Court, Aldermanbury: surveys and designs for a new counting house for William Adair Jackson Esq. and Messrs Peters & Co, 1798-1805 (25)

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Reference number

SM 40/4/24

Purpose

[11] Design for the basement floor of the new building

Aspect

Plan of the Basement Story

Scale

to a scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, W. Adair Jackson Esq^re, labelled: Staircase (3 times), Kitchen, Area (twice), Warehouse (5 times), Court (3 times), (pencil) Door, (pencil) Q^y Flue, (pencil) Coals, (pencil) 1.1½ (5 times), (pencil) 1.6

Signed and dated

July 1804
L. I. Fields / July 1804

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, pink, yellow ochre and blue washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper with two fold marks (710 x 771)

Hand

Soane Office

Watermark

Joseph Ruse Tovill Mill Maidstone / 1803

Notes

Drawings [11]-[13] form a set.

This design for the basement floor shows that it contains warehouses and a kitchen. The semicircular warehouse at the rear of the building provides access to the two small courts behind, one of which contains an external water closet. The function of the two rooms to the right of the warehouses on the drawing is unspecified. The long narrow room to the right is a coal cellar.

Level

Drawing

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