Design for additions, 18 July 1793

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - London: 43 Hill Street: alterations and additions for 1st Earl Fortescue, 1793-1795 (6)

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Reference number

SM (2) 39/1/20 (3) 39/1/24

Purpose

Design for additions, 18 July 1793

Aspect

2 Plan of Basement N⁰1 and rough pencil alternative plan for ? the offices
3 Plan of the One Pair Floor

Scale

3 bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot (drawing 2 to the same scale)

Inscribed

2 as above, Earl Fortescue, rooms labelled: Area, Butlers Pantry, House Keepers / Room, Wine Cellar, Arched Wine Cellar, Servants Hall, Area, Lobby, Cellar, Dry Larder, Wet Larder, Passage, Kitchen / (2 Stories high), Dresser, Scullery, Arcade, Washouse & / Laundry, ironing board, Garden, Stables, Coachouse and dimensions given
3 as above, Earl Fortescue, Drawing Room, Breakfast Room, Anti Room, Best Staircase, Lobby, Water / Closet, Back Staircase, Dressing Room, Chamber and dimensions given

Signed and dated

3 Copy G^tScotland Yard July 18^th1793

Medium and dimensions

(2) Pen, pencil, sepia, light red and blue washes, pricked for transfer on laid paper (484 x 274) (3) pen, sepia and light red washes, pricked for transfer on laid paper (510 x 312)

Hand

Soane office

Notes

The additions are to the rear of the house and (drawing 2) are for a kitchen and washouse/laundry in the basement with stables at the rear of the garden. Drawing 3 shows the ground floor addition of a bedroom at the back, apparently over the two-storey kitchen. The single-storey flat-roofed areas are the stables and the washouse, and also the two privies in the garden.

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