Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Variant design for the office court and house, January 1796 (6)

Browse

Purpose

Variant design for the office court and house, January 1796 (6)

Notes

The plans show a design similar to drawing 79 but with slight variations, such as only one ground floor staircase in the entrance range, rather than two. The windows on the opposite side of the court are larger, shedding more light into the wet and dry larders. The bakehouse, meal room and storage have been rearranged.

Drawing 82 is a section and elevation of the offices revealing the varied floor levels, roofs and the relationship between the office court and house. The arched entrance is surmounted by a clock tower in two stages: the first stage has a clock framed by panelled pilasters and crowned with a balustraded parapet; the second stage has a round-headed arch framed by pilasters with incised mouldings and surmounted by a pediment with antefixae and a weathervane. The arched entrance is centred on five bays, the end bays having large rounded windows shedding light into (according to drawing 81) the laundry and brew houses. The section shows lean-to roofs over the single storey offices wings. The varying floor levels are also visible. Tripartite segmental-arched windows face the court.

Drawings 83 to 85 are presentation drawings of the same design. The executed design does not have a clock tower over the arched entrance.

Level

Group

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

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).  


Contents of Variant design for the office court and house, January 1796 (6)