[51] Design for heating the Accountants Office, 4 December 1804

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SM 10/8/5a

Purpose

[51] Design for heating the Accountants Office, 4 December 1804

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Letter to Soane from William Stark and Son

Inscribed

Sir / With this you will receive a sketch of our plan / & manner of warming the new Accountants Office I hope it / is sufficiently plain for you to understand it- if not we shall / be happy to wait on you to explain any part of it more / fully should it not meet your approbation we beg to / inform you that we shall be happy to [sic] Honored with your / order for doing the business on any other plan that you may / be pleased to fix upon // We are Sir / Your most Obed^tServ^ts / W^m Stark and Son, / Cheapside / Soane Esq

Signed and dated

4 Dec^r1804

Hand

office of William Stark and Son

Watermark

1801

Notes

A system of hot air pipes and radiators was installed at the onset of winter. As the diagram shows, cold air was heated by passing through a pipe surrounded by hot water. The air was piped to various locations in the Office and released through vents in the floor (and five vents in the Basement storey). In addition, more hot air was produced by a stove on the ground floor.

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