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[18] Design for the Guard Room in Cleveland Row
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Reference number
SM 32/2/11
Purpose
[18] Design for the Guard Room in Cleveland Row
Aspect
Plan of the Ground Floor and Plan of the First Floor
Scale
bar scale of 1/12 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above and dimensions given
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and black washes with triple ruled and sepia wash border on laid paper (417 x 549)
Hand
Soane Office
Same office hand as drawings [9]-[10] and [13]-[15].
Same office hand as drawings [9]-[10] and [13]-[15].
Watermark
J Buttanshaw, fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, GR
Notes
This undated drawing is by the same office hand and has the same format as drawings [9] and [10] which are dated December 1792. A plan of St James's Palace in 1793 (J. Mordaunt Crook and M. H. Port, op. cit. above) shows Cleveland Row on the north-west edge of St James's Palace and the arrangment of the fenetration does not correspond with the plans catalogued here. Presumably extra accommodation was needed but whether Soane's design was carrried out or not Cleveland Row (with a great many other buildings, including the semi-elliptical guard house) was damaged or partly destroyed by fire in 1809. (JL)
Literature
J. Mordaunt Crook and M.H.Port, History of the Kings Works, VI, 1973, p. 363 (plan of St James's Palace in 1793), p. 365 (plan of 'St James's Palace, showing the portions destroyed by fire in 1809')
Level
Drawing
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