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[204] Working drawing, 22 May 1818
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Reference number
SM 67/3/3
Purpose
[204] Working drawing, 22 May 1818
Aspect
Details of roof
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
as above, (pencil) Plan, Elevation, and Section of Roof on the New-Secretary's Offices, labelled Plan of the angle / Chelsea Hospital -, Elevation of Wall Plate Cornice &c., Wall (three times), Wall / Plate, Pole / Plate, Tie Beam (twice), Truss, purlin and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- May 22d. 1818.
Hand
Soane office
Watermark
1814
Notes
This drawing shows some details of SM 67/4/7.
The central roof of the Secretary's Office today is of a hipped structure, with a flat top which supports the lantern. Although the lantern was only added in 1821, it seems likely that the timber structure would always have included a flat top, not least in order to support four chimneys at each corner (which the skylight eventually fitted between). Soane had in fact contemplated a lantern earlier in his designs (see note to SM 67/2/17) and probably designed the roof accordingly.
The central roof of the Secretary's Office today is of a hipped structure, with a flat top which supports the lantern. Although the lantern was only added in 1821, it seems likely that the timber structure would always have included a flat top, not least in order to support four chimneys at each corner (which the skylight eventually fitted between). Soane had in fact contemplated a lantern earlier in his designs (see note to SM 67/2/17) and probably designed the roof accordingly.
Level
Drawing
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