[6] Design for a dairy, 9 August 1789

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  - Lees Court, Kent: (executed) stables, dairy, office court, and alterations to the staircase for Lewis Thomas Watson, 1788-90 (33)
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Reference number

SM 65/1/21

Purpose

[6] Design for a dairy, 9 August 1789

Aspect

Elevation towards the lawns, elevation towards the court, section from A to B, section from C to D, ground floor plan; (verso, pencil) rough detail of moulding and elevation of semicircular window

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, The Hon^bleLewis Thomas Watson, Dairy at Lees Court, stone coping, roof to be slated, cornice like that to the offices, stone coping, this plinth to range with that to the offices, dairy, cheese / room, coals, wellhouse, wood, washouse, slated, cornice like that of offices, bond (four times), stone coping, pantiles, single cornice & fascia 4 inches deep, slated, pantiles, this cornice & fascia to be of the height settled by Mr Soane, dimensions given and calculations in pencil; (verso) The Hon^bleTho^sWatson / Margate / Kent; (verso) The Hon^bleLewis Tho^sWatson / Margate / Kent

Signed and dated

9 August 1789
Welbeck Street Aug 9^th 89

Medium and dimensions

Pen and grey, light red and yellow washes on laid paper with three fold marks and traces of red sealing wax (324 x 400)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane and Soane office
Soane and Soane office

Watermark

Curtis & Sons and Britannia within crowned cartouche

Literature

W. Papworth ed., The Dictionary of architecture, published in parts 1848-1892, volume II; J. M. Robinson, Georgian Model Farms: a study of decorative and model farm buildings in the Age of Improvement, 1700-1846, 1983, pp. 98-99.

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Drawing

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