[202] Site drawing, 30 March 1818

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - London: Royal Hospital, Chelsea for the Board of Commissioners, 1807-1835 (226)
    - Secretary's Offices, 30 March - 24 June 1818 (9)

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Reference number

SM 67/4/1

Purpose

[202] Site drawing, 30 March 1818

Aspect

Survey plan of the Ce[ntre] of the Secretary's office (basement)

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

as above and dimensions given

Signed and dated

A. Mee, 30^th March 1818

Hand

A.P. Mee (1802-1823, pupil 1818-1823)

Watermark

1815

Notes

Soane's Secretary's Offices, which exist today, were built on the east side of the Hospital, bordering the East Road and sandwiched between Wren's old Gardener's House and Guardhouse. The building is made up of three main structures: a one storey central building with a basement, framed by two pavilions to the north and south. The pavilions are attached to the central building by small, flat-roofed, single-storey link buildings. The pavilions themselves are of similar proportions to Wren's Guardhouse and Gardener's House.

The drawing shows the basement of the central building and is of a similar arrangement to that for the ground floor, the only design for which is in the National Archive (PRO Works 31/236). This ground floor plan shows a vestibule leading to a corridor that runs the whole longitudinal length of the building (north to south). However, this drawing does not show such a corridor and there is a survey plan in the SM Archive (Priv.Corr.IX.J.39) that corresponds to it, which includes a pencil inscription of Basement. There are three further survey plans in the SM Archive for the basement storey of the Secretary's Offices: two plans of part of the south wing and another for part of the north wing again.

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Drawing

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