Explore Collections
You are here:
CollectionsOnline
/
[68] Working drawing for the roof timbers, 30 April 1795
Browse
Reference number
SM 3/5/9
Purpose
[68] Working drawing for the roof timbers, 30 April 1795
Aspect
Plan shewing the Timbers of the Attic Floor; detail of binding joist; (verso) section of the house including the tribune with alterations; rough part-elevation of the tribune on the first floor; and rough detail of the springing course for the lantern
Scale
(recto and verso) bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot, approximately
Inscribed
as above, William Praed Esqr, This Girder not / to be trussed, Girder trussed / by Partition, Architrave 10" thick 12" deep, This Girder trussed by Partition, 10" thick by 12" deep, plan lettered A to K corresponding with key AA Holes through the Walls / to admit Water into / the Cistern from Fl-- (illegible, sheet damaged) / Cistern 2 feet deep // B A Chimney may be had here / by trimming to support a / principal beam of the Roof // E This binding Joist / Bolted to the principal / Quarter of Partition // F to G is higher than the / levell of the Floors // H A floor to be put in / under H so as to make / a Cistern 2 feet deep / over the Water Closet on / the one pair Floor // Put a Brace from the / Beam over L to the / Plate K // Girders 1'4" by 1'4" / where not marked / otherwise; (verso, Soane) B Flush beads, Make C. Concentric with d & omit / this recess ee on this side // The Recess cc shews the arched openg into the Hall, Door / into / Eating / Room, Sunk fillets, lettered A (twice), B (three times), C (three times), D
Signed and dated
- April 1795
Copy Lincolns Inn Fields April 1795
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen and yellow, pink and grey washes on wove paper (682 x 557)
Hand
Soane office
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk