[4] Working drawing for hothouses and gardeners' cottage, 27 April 1793

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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)
    - Working drawings and copy of design for hothouses and gardeners' cottage, 27 April 1793 (3)

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Reference number

SM 8/3/14

Purpose

[4] Working drawing for hothouses and gardeners' cottage, 27 April 1793

Aspect

T-shaped plan labelled: Pinery with alternating Columns and Air Hole[s], Washouse with Stairs to Gardeners / apartments, Seed room, Peachery with Columns and two adjacent Cistern[s], Passage (three times), Fire (twice) indicating flues to pineries and peacheries, and dimensions given

Scale

feint pencil bar scale of 1/8 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

as above and dimensions given

Signed and dated

27 April 1793

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, pencil on thin (secretary) laid paper with four fold marks (312 x 396)

Hand

Soane office (SM Day Book missing)

Watermark

Britannia with spear, shield and olive branch within a crowned oval frame and GR crowned

Literature

D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect, 2nd ed. 1996, p.119: P.Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.165

Level

Drawing

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