[17] Revised design for addition of porch and breakfast room

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  - Betchworth Castle (Surrey): alterations and additions to the house, designs for lodge, dairy, ice house, greenhouse and stables, 1798-1800 (68 )
    - Designs for alterations and additions, 1798-1801 (18)

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Reference number

SM 5/1/11

Purpose

[17] Revised design for addition of porch and breakfast room

Aspect

The Plan of the Alterations with feint pencil detail of ? truss

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, Henry Peters Esq^r / Betchworth Castle, labelled M^r Peters Room, M^r Peters dressing / Room, Hall, arch (4 times), equal (3 times), A B E F G c d e f, The Center of the Chimney A determines / the middle of the peir [sic] B / make c - d and e - f equal, The Center of the present window at / E gives the center of the window F / ggg windows the same width as those / in M^r Peters Room G and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

12/05/1801
Lincolns Inn Fields May 12 1801

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and red washes, some added pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper with one fold mark (553 x 668) add

Hand

Thomas Sword
Pupil January 1799 - 1804. Information from office Day Book.

Notes

The re-introduction of a porch, larger and battlemented, has changed the plan of the breakfast room so that the arc of its semicircular form now runs north/south rather than east/west.

Level

Drawing

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