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Soane designed a number of dairies among which are designs for Bentley Priory, Wimpole Hall and Letton.
See note to Lees Court for further information on the design of dairies. See also Hamels Park for a note on Soane's use of a primitive, rustic style first found in the designs for a dairy at that house in 1783.
Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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Contents of Designs for a dairy, 1798-1799 (9)
- [36] Design for a small dairy
- [37] Designs for a small dairy
- [38] Design for an octagonal dairy
- [39] Record drawing of octagonal dairy
- [40] Design for an octagonal dairy as drawing [38]
- [41] Working drawing for an octagonal dairy
- [42] Working drawing for an octagonal dairy
- [43] Working drawing for an octagonal dairy
- [44] Working drawing for interior of octagonal dairy