[7] Yorke Place / Design for Ten Houses & Gardens for Philip Yorke Esqr, 6 September 1784

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

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Reference number

SM 64/6/16

Purpose

[7] Yorke Place / Design for Ten Houses & Gardens for Philip Yorke Esqr, 6 September 1784

Aspect

Site plan with five pairs of semi-detached houses arranged around a semi-elliptical crescent, and elevation of three types of house: the centre pair with an attic floor and thus taller than the others and with a broken-bed pediment, on either side a pair of houses with similar elevations to the centre one but without an attic floor and pediment and, at each end, a more rustic design that has the roof and simplified Wyatt windows of the other designs but with a single-pitched roof to the side and (left-hand pair) latticed window glass; sketch detail of an alternative design for a three-part window with Gothic arches; (verso) feint (pencil) plan and perspective

Scale

pricked through bar scale 1/16 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

as above, AA Contains on the Ground floor / One Living Room 11 feet by 12 feet & 8:6" high / 2 Closets on the Chimney side / One Washouse 9:0" by 7:6" / A small Oven for Copper in the Washouse / First Floor / One Bedchamber 11 feet by 12 feet & 8':6 high / three feet of the 8':6" taken out of the Roof as / no Garrets are intended in this design / 2 Closets on the Chimney side // BB Ground floor / One Living Room 11 by 12 feet & 8:6" high / two Closets / One Washouse 9:6 by 7:6" / A small Oven & Copper in the Washouse / First Floor / One Bedchamber and Radius 118 feet and some site dimensions given and (pencil) calculations

Signed and dated

6 September 1784
Sep^r6: 1784

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil on laid paper, partly pricked for transfer and with one fold mark (583 x 470)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane, inscriptions by ? Robert Baldwin (fl.1762-c.1804)
Possibly BALDWIN, Robert (fl. 1762--1787), draughtsman
Soane, inscriptions by ? Robert Baldwin (fl.1762-c.1804)

Watermark

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

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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