[3] Preliminary design for basement and offices, January 1784

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  - Tendring Hall, Suffolk: (executed) house for Admiral Sir Joshua Rowley, 1783-1789 (55)

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Reference number

SM 28/2/4

Purpose

[3] Preliminary design for basement and offices, January 1784

Aspect

General plan of the Basement Story, of courtyard Offices &c

Scale

bar scale of 1/9 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, Tendring Hall, rooms labelled Dressing Closet, Working Closet, Servants Hall, Cistern & Sink, Passage, Butlers Pantry, Plate Closet, Working Closet, Cistern & Sink, The Ale, Strong Beer / and / Small Beer Cellars, Subhall, Wine Cellar, French Wine Cellar, Housekeepers Room, Dreser, a linen press, China Clos.^t, Lobby, Staircase, Scullery, The Kitchen, Table, Passage to the Kitchen, Washouse & Bakehouse, Larder, Laundry, The Ironing Board, Stove, Stone, Ironing board, Mangle, The Kitchen Court / and / Drying Ground, Privy (twice), Low Sheds for Charcoal, Chicken Coops, Bottle rack / &c &c, Sheds for Coals Wood &c and some dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pen, black, sepia and blue-grey washes within double ruled and sepia wash border on laid paper (563 x 440, 440 x 560)

Hand

Robert Baldwin (fl.1762-c.1804)

Watermark

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

Notes

The kitchen court shown here and in SM 28/2/3 is virtually the same though a few dimensions vary by six inches and, for example, the dry and wet larders are merged as is shown by an erasure in the earlier SM 28/2/3. Later designs for the kitchen court (SM 28/3/2 and SM 28/2/14, SM 28/2/18, SM 28/2/16 and SM 28/2/15) are more or less the same though, for example, the brewhouse is divided to make a brewhouse and a laundry and the laundry becomes the bakehouse.

SM 28/2/3 is dated 5 January 1784 and yet the first mention of Admiral Rowley in Soane's Note Books is dated 28 April 1784 - 'Called on Admiral Rowley'. Sometimes, at the beginning of a new year, the date is mis-remembered and the old year is written down. However, the plans do seem to pre-date the set of contract drawings that follow (SM 28/3/1, SM 28/3/2, SM 28/3/3, SM 28/3/4 and SM 28/3/5).

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