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  - Netheravon House, Wiltshire: alterations and additions and designs for lodges for Michael Hicks Beach, 1791 (12)

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Reference number

SM 62/8/18

Purpose

[12] Design for lodges

Aspect

Plan and elevation for a larger Lodge for M.H.Beach Esqre and with the pediment drawn (pencil) steeper by Soane, (feint pencil) N^o2 ,(partly erased pencil, several indecipherable words and) The Village

Scale

bar scale of ¼ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, plan labelled: Fuel, Bedroom, Keeping Room with (pencil, Soane) Oven, Copper, door (pen) Wash House (cancelled by Soane and in pencil, Buttery), Buttery (cancelled by Soaneand in pencil) Shop

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, naples yellow and pale blue washes with double-ruled border on laid paper (484 x 378)

Hand

Soane office, Soane amendments

Watermark

Curtis & Sons, crowned cartouche with fleur-de-lis and C & S below

Notes

This drawng is for perhaps a double lodge about 44 feet wide by 15 feet. 'Keeping room' is an unusual term (O.E.D. local and U.S. 1790) living room ... [or] parlour) while 'Buttery' (a store-room for provisions) and 'Shop' suggest an additional function perhaps related to 'The Village'.

An earlier drawing has a note '2 lodges one with flints' and both this drawng and SM 62/8/17 employ flints, though the smaller lodge has 'rough cast' for the porch and privy. Flint was locally available and perhaps Higgs Beach requested it. Both lodges have thatched roofs. The lodge designs differ from Soane's earliest executed example in a primitive, rustic style - the dairy at Hamels Park, 1783 (q.v.) - a Doric temple with tree-trunk columns. This drawing has a rusticated segmental 'pediment' over the door whose heavy lintel is repeated over the single-mullioned, lattice-windows on either side. The impression is grimly austere.

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Drawing

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