[38] Design for an octagonal dairy

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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 a dairy, 1798-1799 (9)

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Reference number

SM 65/1/13

Purpose

[38] Design for an octagonal dairy

Aspect

Plan of the Dairy and Elevation of the Dairy with pencil alternative plan added by Soane

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, Henry Peters Esq^r, labelled Dairy and Scalding Room and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

11/08/1798
Copy Lincolns Inn Fields Aug^st 11 1798

Medium and dimensions

Pen, burnt umber, sepia and red washes, shaded, added pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper with one fold mark (499 x 623)

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

The dairy, 20 x 20 feet, is octagonal on plan with seven windows and a door leading to the 10 x 10 scalding room. The roof of the dairy room is a tapering octagonl finished by an octagonal lantern/ventilator. The link between dairy and scalding room is plain with a window on each side and two curved steps to the dairy. The four-part pencil alternative plan (of the recto) reverts to square/rectangular forms.

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Drawing

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