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[40] Design for an octagonal dairy as drawing [38]
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Reference number
SM 65/1/14
Purpose
[40] Design for an octagonal dairy as drawing [38]
Aspect
Plan of the Dairy, three Elevation[s] of the Dairy with pencil amendments by Soane (verso, pencil) alternative plans including a triangular plan
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Scale
bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above, Henry Peters Esqr, labelled Dairy and Scalding Room, a few dimensions given and (pencil) Stained Glass, Ground falls -- flat -- 22 feet (partly illegible)
Signed and dated
- 11/08/1798
Lincolns Inn Fields Augst 11 1798
Medium and dimensions
Pen, burnt umber, sepia and red washes, shaded, added pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper with two fold marks (531 x 621)
Hand
The office Day Book entry for 11 August 1798 has: Mansfield and Seward as working on Betchley Castle, That is, George Mansfield, surveyor 1 May 1797 - December 1800 and Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848), pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808
Notes
An elevation shows the scalding room with a pitched roof. The pencil amendments by Soane are for the link between the dairy and the scalding room so that the plain wall and pitched roof is replaced by columns (supporting a cistern) or by an arch. The mention of 'stained glass' seems extravagant but it would have excluded sunlight and helped to keep the dairy cool and too, dairies intended for the amusement of the ladies were often decorative.
The verso of this drawing has some (feint pencil) plans for the dairy including a triangular plan having three concave sides with straight ends. Soane used this plan form early on for a' Preliminary design for a bath?', 1778-80 (45/1/18). A simpler triangular plan with straight sides was used for a doghouse at Downhill, County Derry (P13) and for a lodge at Pell Wall (62/8/2-4 (qqq.v). In his Designs in Architecture...1778, plate xii, Soane published his design for a tea room, triangular on plan with concave sides.
The verso of this drawing has some (feint pencil) plans for the dairy including a triangular plan having three concave sides with straight ends. Soane used this plan form early on for a' Preliminary design for a bath?', 1778-80 (45/1/18). A simpler triangular plan with straight sides was used for a doghouse at Downhill, County Derry (P13) and for a lodge at Pell Wall (62/8/2-4 (qqq.v). In his Designs in Architecture...1778, plate xii, Soane published his design for a tea room, triangular on plan with concave sides.
Level
Drawing
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