Yorke Place / Design for Ten Houses & Gardens for Philip Yorke Esqr, 6 September 1784 (1)

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  - 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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Yorke Place / Design for Ten Houses & Gardens for Philip Yorke Esqr, 6 September 1784 (1)

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This is perhaps a copy of the drawing sent to Mr Yorke on 6 September 1784 (SM SNB 1). On 1 October, Soane went to Hammels and staked out the cottages (SM SNB 1) but nothing further came of the scheme.

See also Saxlingham Rectory, Norfolk for a plan on the verso of drawing 14 (28/1/20 verso) that may be related to this scheme.

Literature

P. du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.261,263-4; 380 (fn.38 with SM MSS references)

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