[9] Alternative (unexecuted) design for the dairy showing rusticated portico facing the lawn, and working drawing for the offices

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  - Lees Court, Kent: (executed) stables, dairy, office court, and alterations to the staircase for Lewis Thomas Watson, 1788-90 (33)
    - Alternative (unexecuted) design for the dairy showing rusticated portico facing the lawn, and working drawing for the offices (1)

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Reference number

SM 65/1/27

Purpose

[9] Alternative (unexecuted) design for the dairy showing rusticated portico facing the lawn, and working drawing for the offices

Aspect

Plan, three cross sections and two elevations; (verso) plan and three elevations for offices; and two rough part-sections of roof timbers

Scale

bar scale of 3/20 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

some dimensions given in pencil; (verso) Wa:, La:, Bake, blank wind:[ow] when finished, new floor / over this / room, brew, stable, K, blank wind:[ow] when finish'd, A (twice), B (four times), B. &c. leave this open^g3 feet wide & set out on the plinth, gaug[ed arch], waterhouse, range, K. this indent is determined by the situation of the present - (sheet trimmed), L / Range, Kitchen, mansion house and dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on cartridge paper (404 x 565)

Hand

Soane office

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. 92-100.

Level

Drawing

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