[3] Survey plan of the offices showing proposed alterations, 15 May 1787

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

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Reference number

SM 4/3/9

Purpose

[3] Survey plan of the offices showing proposed alterations, 15 May 1787

Aspect

(inscribed ? Baldwin) Plan of the Offices at Hammels (inscribed Soane) with the proposed Alterations / (added in another hand) the Seat of Philip Yorke Esq^re and a rough, feint pencil plan

Scale

bar scale of 1/7 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

as above and labelled: Staircase to / the Maids Room, Housekeeper, Store room, Housemaids / Scullery, Brewhouse, Court between House & Stable Building, Stables, Coachouses / &c, Dunghole, The Entrance for Waggons / into Kitchen Court, Coals, Wood &c, Carpenters Shop, Fence to enclose drying Ground, Sawpit, Drying Grounds &c, Coals &c, Game Larder, Pantry, Servants Hall, Bottle Rack, Skylight, Serv^ts Powdering / room, Knive board, Cleaning Shoes & Knives, Dusthole, Court Light over / this / door, Washouse with Washing tubs, Laundry with Ironing board, Ironing Stove and Mangle and Coals for / Laundry, Kitchen, Scullery, Bakehouse, Larder and dimensions of washouse and laundry given

Signed and dated

15 May 1787
Welbeck Street, May 15: 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and pink washes within single ruled and sepia wash border, pricked for transfer (this appears to be the original drawing) on laid paper with one fold mark (466 x 587)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane /?Baldwin
Possibly BALDWIN, Robert (fl. 1762--1787), draughtsman
Soane /?Baldwin

Watermark

J Whatman, fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar, and below, ornate W

Literature

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

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Drawing

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