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  • image SM 28/2/21

Reference number

SM 28/2/21

Purpose

[15] Working drawing for the timberwork, July 1785

Aspect

Three sections through the garret floor

Scale

1/5 inch to 1 foot (approximately)

Inscribed

(Sanders) Tendring Hall, illegible note in pencil by builder and (unidentified hand, verso) Tendring Hall / Plan of the Roof & Section / of do and (verso, Baldwin) Tendring Hall / Plan of the Roof & section / of -- (illegible)

Signed and dated

  • datable to 1785

Medium and dimensions

pen, pencil on cartridge paper with three fold marks, recent repairs (598 x 491)

Hand

Robert Baldwin, pencil notes by builder

Notes

SM 28/2/19, SM 28/2/13 and SM 28/2/21 can be grouped together since they deal with information on the disposition and size of timbers required by the carpenter. 'Purloin' was the term used at this time for 'purlin' - the longitudinal timber in a roof, resting on the principal rafters, and carrying the common rafters. SM 28/2/13 shows an Ionic order on the ground floor and a Corinthian order to the first floor. SM volume 41/75, dated 27 May, 1786, shows the details of a more inventive leaf capital.

Level

Drawing

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