Record drawing of a design for brewery and house, c.1789-90

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  - Reading, Berkshire: Seven Bridges Street now Bridge Street: brewery for William Blackall Simonds, 1789-1790; house for Mr Simonds fronting the brewery, 1789; additions and alterations to the original house, 1802-1803 (34)

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Reference number

SM (3) volume 59/41

Purpose

Record drawing of a design for brewery and house, c.1789-90

Aspect

3 Perspective of brewhouse, brewery store house, and house

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, blue and green washes, shaded on laid paper (253 x 469)

Hand

John McDonnell (pupil 1786-91)

Watermark

J Whatman

Notes

Mr Simond's house with two-storey domestic offices at the rear had the brewery storehouse on one side and behind it - across a yard - the brewhouse itself. The brewhouse corresponds with the design shown on drawing 2 while the store house corresponds with drawing 9, dated 31December 1802

On the opposite page of the album in which this drawing is mounted is a perspective of an unexecuted 'Villa in Cheshire / for The Hon^bleWilbraham Tollemache' published in Soane's Plans, elevations and sections of houses, lodges, bridges etc in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Hertfordshire et cetera', 1788 (plates 39-40). Made by the same hand as drawings 4 and 5, the front elevation is close to that of drawing 5 though with two storeys instead of three. Another example of Soane's re-use of the composition and window details for the front of Saxlingham Rectory, 1784 (q.v.)

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Drawing

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