Survey drawing of an unidentified premises

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Reference number

SM (47) 56/11/29

Purpose

Survey drawing of an unidentified premises

Aspect

47 Gound floor plan

Inscribed

Front of Dwelling house to the South, 12½ feet wide, 7 feet wide, 15 feet wide, Two Rooms 30 feet long / communicating by folding doors, 16 feet wide, Front Staircase, Entrance Hall, Room 18 feet long, Room 18½ feet long, Back / Staircase, Staircase, Privy, Paved Yard, Passage leading to Kitchen, Paved Yard, Store room, Bounded by high bricked dwelling house, Wash house, Passage, Bounded by high bricked dwelling house, 17 feet long, 12 feet wide, Kitchen, Back / Privy, Stair / Case, Pantry, Bounded by dwelling house, The premises are bounded on this Eastern side by adjoining Bricked dwelling house / 3 stories high, (pencil): South, This floor / 10 feet high, West, North, East

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink, raw Sienna, blue, olive green and burnt Sienna washes on wove paper with two fold marks (227 x 361)

Hand

local surveyor

Notes

Although all staircases are coloured blue and both privies olive green, there is no obvious rationale behind the colour scheme used on this plan.

Level

Drawing

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