[3] Preliminary design for the addition of wings

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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.
  - Allanbank, Berwickshire: (unexecuted) addition of wings, for John Stuart later 4th Baronet, September-October 1780 (3)
    - Survey drawings and preliminary design for the addition of wings (3)

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Reference number

SM volume 42/128

Purpose

[3] Preliminary design for the addition of wings

Aspect

Elevation showing the existing five-bay, three-storey and basement house with the proposed three-bay, single-storey plus basement additions on each side

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

money calculations in which £50,000 is multiplied by 7 = £35[0,000] add £25[,000]= £375,000 divided by 240 = £15,000 (i.e.£15,62.5) minus 240 totals 1350

Signed and dated

1780

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen on laid paper (181 x 217) in an album of 'Original Sketches' volume 42

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane

Watermark

quartered British royal coat of arms encircled (pasted down, similar to Heawood 446 ?)

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.113-14, 118-20
D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, 2nd ed., 1996, pp.49-50
J.Ingamells, Dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701-1800, 1997
G.Darley, John Soane: an accidental Romantic, 1999, p.601
G.Stamp, 'Soane in Glasgow', Georgian Group Journal, LXIII, 2003, p.196. fn.

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Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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