Scale
bar scale
Inscribed
as above, labelled Paradise Row, Breakfast / room, Stable Yard, House, Study, Court, Staircase, Bed / room, Stable. Harness / room, Coachouse, Eating Room, Drawing room, (red pen) wind[ow] (three times), Wall, Ch[imne]y, office / Study, new Ent[rance] and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
Hand
Soane office
Notes
This plan largely shows the house prior to Soane's alterations of 1814-15. However, an extra room has been added in red pen, projecting from the right-angle of the existing L-shaped layout of rooms and labelled as 'office'. There is also a 'new Ent[rance]' labelled, presumably added by Soane. It is evident from the plan, viewed alongside the elevation shown in SM volume 76/56, that private stables were attached to the house at this time - built to the right of the main house. Soane was to add his new wing on to this west side of the building, demolishing the row of 'Coachouse', 'Harness room' and 'Stable'. Perhaps the Clerk of Works' horses were housed in the main stables from then on. The old hospital Stables (although not seen on this plan) would have extended along Paradise Row to the east of the Clerk of Works' House (SM volume 76/56). The plan of the house is easily located, with the Infirmary (labelled) to the south and Paradise Row, to the north.
Level
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