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Record drawing of a design for a keeper's lodge, April 1786
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Reference number
SM volume 41/69
Purpose
Record drawing of a design for a keeper's lodge, April 1786
Aspect
Plan of the Ground floor and four elevations
Scale
bar scale of 1/12 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above, Elevation of one side of the Building, Elevation of the back front, chamber over the / front of this / building, the floor of room A / No chambers over A, Tile heads (three times), floor, floor, Brick modignial (sic, Modillion?) / Cornice, Make this / window as high / as the floor will / permit, dimensions given, Payne Galwey Esqre, Design for the Keepers Lodge at /Tofts, the Front B is to / face the Lake // To be built with flints, excepting the quoins / window jambs, chimney shaft &c / which must be executed in brickwork / The roof to be covered with pantiles, & made / to rise 4'6" in the center
Signed and dated
- datable to April 1786 (see Notes)
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pink wash on laid paper (364 x 244) bound into 'Precedents in Architecture' SM volume 41
Hand
John McDonnell (1770- , pupil, 18 March 1786 to 1791)
Watermark
T French
Notes
The structure is comprised of a two-storey dwelling behind a decorative front room. There is no communication between the two parts of the building, as the front is to serve as an ornamental cottage separate from the basic accommodation at the rear.
The front elevation has a pedimented door and glazing within a round-headed recessed panel. The back of the lodge is wider than the front, measuring 21 feet 9 inches. It has simple windows and a round-headed door.
As noted on the drawing, the building is to be constructed of flint with brick quoins, window jambs and chimney. The hipped roof is to be covered in pantiles.
Soane first visited Payne Galwey at Tofts on 26 March 1786 (Soane Journal No 1). Drawings for a keeper's lodge were sent to the client on 24 April 1786. Soane charged Payne Galwey £6 6s 0d for his drawings of the lodge, and £2 12s 6d for a 'book of architecture' (Ledger A). It is unknown whether the lodge was built to Soane's designs.
Tofts was demolished in the 1950s.
The front elevation has a pedimented door and glazing within a round-headed recessed panel. The back of the lodge is wider than the front, measuring 21 feet 9 inches. It has simple windows and a round-headed door.
As noted on the drawing, the building is to be constructed of flint with brick quoins, window jambs and chimney. The hipped roof is to be covered in pantiles.
Soane first visited Payne Galwey at Tofts on 26 March 1786 (Soane Journal No 1). Drawings for a keeper's lodge were sent to the client on 24 April 1786. Soane charged Payne Galwey £6 6s 0d for his drawings of the lodge, and £2 12s 6d for a 'book of architecture' (Ledger A). It is unknown whether the lodge was built to Soane's designs.
Tofts was demolished in the 1950s.
Literature
P. Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p. 174.
Level
Drawing
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