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[4] Preliminary design, 23 April 1791
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Reference number
SM 30/1B/17
Purpose
[4] Preliminary design, 23 April 1791
Aspect
Plan of the Hall Story
Scale
bar scale of 1/13 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above, M. Hicks Beach Esqre, T Water Closet / V Billiard room, over it a Chamber, Dressing Room & Water Closet / or per dotted lines, W Recess for a Sopha if the room is used as a Drawing/ Room and for a Side table if considered as / Eating Room, rooms labelled: Breakfast / room, Hall, Eating Room, Drawing room W, Library and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 23 April 1791
Copy April 23 1791
Medium and dimensions
Pen, brown pen, sepia and light red washes, pricked for transfer on laid secretary paper with three fold marks (422 x 344)
Hand
Soane
Watermark
C Ball and Britannia holding lance, shield and olive branch within crowned oval
Notes
The plans show the existing house with the proposed additions added to the back. The basement plan (SM 30/1B/19) shows the old offices (servants hall, housekeeper's room, shoes and knives room, butler's pantry) and the new ones. The 'mezzanine' (SM 30/1B/18) is over the new basement offices in which the bakehouse, coals &c and scullery were to have a floor to ceiling height of eight feet. Above these were to be the butler's pantry, plate closet and butler's chamber while the upper parts of the kitchen and of the laundry occupied the rest of the mezzanine. This drawing shows the addition above the mezzanine of a billiard room with (not shown) a bedroom, dressing room and closet on the floor above.
These three plans were evidently the basis for discussion and amendment since, for example, 'lattice partition[s]' were added to the larders on SM 30/1B/21 some weeks later.
These three plans were evidently the basis for discussion and amendment since, for example, 'lattice partition[s]' were added to the larders on SM 30/1B/21 some weeks later.
Level
Drawing
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