Drawings 48 and 49 are presentation drawings of the entrance screen. Drawings 50 and 51 are record drawings, showing almost the same design but with a variant parapet design and including a single strigillated urn over the entrance gate. The limestone building is a paired down design, consisting of an arch between the two lodges. The front elevation of each lodge, as in drawing 50, has a recessed window framed by Greek Doric columns. The rear elevation does not have columns. Arthur Bolton, former curator of the Soane Museum (1864-1945, curator 1917-45), writes about the screen: 'This is a most interesting design, whether seen in front, where the Doric Order is employed, or from back, where Soane successfully dispensed with a columnar treatment' (A. Bolton, p. 19). Nikolaus Pevsner called the entrance screen 'a monument of European importance... it is entirely independent of period precedent, a sign of daring only matched at that moment by what Ledoux was designing in France and Gilly in Germany' (Pevsner and Williamson, p. 703). The building still stands, forming the entrance to Tyringham House, though the chimney pots have since been removed.

A. Bolton, The Works of Sir John Soane, 1924, p. 19; N. Pevsner & E. Williamson, Buckinghamshire, 1994, p.703.

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