[26] Variant design for thatched lodge with flintwork

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Betchworth Castle (Surrey): alterations and additions to the house, designs for lodge, dairy, ice house, greenhouse and stables, 1798-1800 (68 )
    - Designs for a lodge house, July-October 1798 (12)

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Reference number

SM 62/8/38

Purpose

[26] Variant design for thatched lodge with flintwork

Aspect

Plan of the Lodge and Elevation of the Lodge

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above and Henry Peters Esq^r and dimensions given

Signed and dated

11/08/1798
(Copy) Lincolns Inn Fields, Aug^st 11:1798

Medium and dimensions

Pen, burnt umber, sepia, red and green washes, shaded on wove paper with one fold mark (532 x 629)

Hand

Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808. The Soane office Day Book for 11 August 1798 has an entry: 'Henry Peters Esqr / Sent him the following / drawings of Buildings / to be built at Betchworth / Castle / Plan & Elevation of Lodge / D^o of Stables / D^o of Dairy / D^o Section of an Ice / House / on 4 sheets of Cartridge Paper' and Abt drawings of Betch-/ worth Castle / Mansfield'
George Mansfield
Surveyor 1 May 1797 - December 1800.

Notes

The four slender tree trunk columns of drawing [25] are here replaced by two simple Doric columns, the area of flintwork is enlarged and four plain timber pilasters have been added. In a sense, less primitive than drawing [25].

Level

Drawing

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