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Designs for alterations to the basement, 1794
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Reference number
SM 5/3/12
Purpose
Designs for alterations to the basement, 1794
Aspect
Plan of the Basement Floor / with the proposed alterations and additions
Scale
bar scale of 1/20 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above, Sir John Throckmorton Barr, Larder, Pantry, Passage, Scullery, Dresser, Kitchen, Steward's / Room, Servants / Hall, Bed / Room, Powderg / Room, Butler
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen and black, grey and blue washes on laid paper with six fold marks (492 x 391)
Hand
Soane office and Soane
Watermark
IV and fleur-de-lis
Notes
Soane designed two schemes for altering Buckland House but neither was executed. Soane first visited the site to survey the house on 14 May 1792, and in June he delivered drawings for alterations to the library. Two years later, the basement storey was surveyed on 25 February 1794 and designs were made for its alterations. This drawing is a design for the latter scheme, showing offices in the basement. Although these two schemes were not carried through, it has been speculated that Soane may have built the existing stables (P. Dean, p. 183).
Buckland House was built in 1755-8 by John Wood the Younger for Sir Robert Throckmorton. Soane's basement plan indicates the building's layout. The building had a broad frontage of 250 feet, with the central three-storey Palladian block linked by long passages to two octagonal terminal pavilions.
Madeleine Helmer, April 2012
Buckland House was built in 1755-8 by John Wood the Younger for Sir Robert Throckmorton. Soane's basement plan indicates the building's layout. The building had a broad frontage of 250 feet, with the central three-storey Palladian block linked by long passages to two octagonal terminal pavilions.
Madeleine Helmer, April 2012
Literature
P. Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p. 183; G. Tyack, S. Bradley and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, 2010, p.215.
Level
Drawing
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