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Alternative designs and designs for alterations and additions to the house, February 1791 (3)
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Alternative designs and designs for alterations and additions to the house, February 1791 (3)
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Soane offered Mr Hicks Beach alternative designs labelled No1 and No 2 (drawing 12 recto & verso, 13 recto). For the south side, Soane proposed removing the projecting bays and porch and having a six-bay front and re-shaping the dining room so as to give it apsidal ends. The east front was to remain the same while inside, the 'vestibule' was now labelled 'billiard room'. The west front received the most attention with an Ionic portico with four or six columns and, internally, alternative proposals for re-modelling the library (to the north-west) that were developed further in drawing 14; Soane's library was removed in 1946. The elevations for the west front (drawing 13 recto) derive from Soane's preliminary design (drawing 3 verso) with its visual elimination of the first floor by giving it semicircular windows placed over the tall windows of the ground floor, and a giant Ionic order.
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Contents of Alternative designs and designs for alterations and additions to the house, February 1791 (3)
- [12] Alternative designs, principal floor, 1 February 1791
- [13] Alternative designs and designs for alterations and additions to the house, elevations and ground floor plan, February 1791
- [14] Alternative designs and designs for alterations and additions to the house, elevation and ground floor plan, February 1791