Survey plan of the offices showing proposed alterations, 15 May 1787 (1)

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Hamels Park, Hertfordshire: designs for gateway and lodges 1781, alterations to offices, 1787, hothouses and gardeners' cottage, 1793 and unexecuted scheme for estate housing, 1784 for the Hon. Philip Yorke later 3rd Earl of Hardwicke (7)

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Survey plan of the offices showing proposed alterations, 15 May 1787 (1)

Notes

The proposed alterations to the offices (shown in pink wash) consist of a new wagon entrance to the kitchen court, partitioning of the washouse area, provision of new windows and doors to the laundry and new washouse, making a servants' powdering room and shoe cleaning area and placing a partition wall between a store room and the housemaids scullery. Dean (op.cit) notes that 'although much remodelled and now converted into flats, part of the offices wing re-organized by Soane in 1787 survives and corresponds with [this] plan. Some of Soane's partitions can still be identified. The carpenter's shop, woodstore and gate piers have been lost.'

Literature

P.Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.165

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