Preliminary designs and preliminary working drawings for a villa on the site of the old Pitzhanger Manor, August

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing, London: (executed) a house for John Soane and six unexecuted schemes for a villa at Acton, 1800-1832 (285)
    - Preliminary designs for Pitzhanger Manor, villas A to G, c. August - c. November 1800 (31)

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Preliminary designs and preliminary working drawings for a villa on the site of the old Pitzhanger Manor, August - October 1800 (6)

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Drawings 68 to 73 are some of the earliest of Soane's designs for a villa on the Pitzhanger site and unlike the later designs, they are for a completely new villa without the Dance wing. The two ground floor plans are very similar with the exception of exterior columns added to the north side of the house, which are marked as a pencil addition in drawing 68 and in pen for drawing 69.

These drawings, as a set, bear a strong resemblance to Soane's later designs for the Acton villa (in particular, designs E and F) both in plan and elevation. The recto of drawing 73 shows repeated ideas from Acton in the rectangular skyline ornament and relief sculptures and the verso again displays the fluted incised pilaster and scallop shell antifixae as well as the familiar splayed entrance porch.

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Contents of Preliminary designs and preliminary working drawings for a villa on the site of the old Pitzhanger Manor, August - October 1800 (6)