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Designs for alterations to the branch bank, Queen Street, March 1829 (4)
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Reference number
SM (70) 56/12/19 (71) 56/12/14 (72) 56/12/9 (73) 56/12/24
Purpose
Designs for alterations to the branch bank, Queen Street, March 1829 (4)
Aspect
70 Plan of the Premises in Queen Street Norwich / shewing the proposed Alterations to adapt them for / a Branch Bank and a residence for a Sub Agent with flier showing a plan of the Basement Story / under the Bank
71 Plan of the Premises in Queen Street Norwich / shewing the proposed Alterations to adapt them / for a Branch Bank and a residence for a Sub Agent
72 Plan of the ground floor
73 Plan of the One Pair Floor of the Premises in Queen St Norwich / shewing the proposed Alterations
Scale
(70-73) bar scales of ? inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
70 as above, The Bank of England, NSEW compass point, labelled: Queen Street, Buildings 3 Stories high occupied as Offices by Messrs Unthanks & Foster, Yard, Buidlings belonging to / Mr W Foster, Ground belonging to / Mr W Foster, (beneath flier) Garden, Cottages, Stable Yard &c belonging / to Mr W Foster, Building belonging / to Mr W Foster in the / occupation of Mr Gidney / Fruiterer &c, Paved Yard, Door / 29 Ap[ri]l, Entrance / Hall, (Soane) Part[ition] 29 Ap[ril], Swing Door, Porters Room / 12.0 by 12.0, Book Room / 7.9 by 5.0, Iron Door, Agents / Private / Room / 12'6'' by 20'0'', (Soane) 4 May 1829 / Sash door, Counter / 15.6, Bank / 23'6'' by 20'0'' / 9'7'' high, Desks (3 times), Closet, Kitchen, Pantry &c, 11'6'', 18.0, Back Kitchen, Sheds for Wood, Coals &c, Servants WC, W Closet, Lobby, Closet (twice), Staircase, Water / Closet / &c, Staircase to / Strong Room, (Soane) Stone Steps; (added later by Soane) 29 April 1829 / App[rove]d by the Com[mittee] adding a Partition in / the Hall & making a seperate entrance into the / Dwelling House / add to estimate
71 as above, The Bank of England, 29 Ap[ri]l 1829 / Plan approved by the Committee adding a Partition in / the Hall and making a separate Entrance into the / Dwelling House / add to Estimate, NSEW compass point, labelled: Messrs Unthanks & Fosters Offices, Yard, Building belonging to / Mr W Foster, Ground belonging / to Mr W Foster, Garden, Cottages, Stable Yard &c belonging / to Mr W Foster, Premises belonging to / Mr Foster in the / occupation of Mr Gidney / Fruiterer &c, Paved Yard, Door / 29 Ap[ri]l, Partition / 29 Ap[ri]l, Entrance / Hall, Swing Door, Porters Room / 12'0'' by 12'0'', Book Room / 7'9'' by 5'0'', Iron Door, Agents Private / Room / 12.6 by 20.0, Sash door, (pencil) 11.6, Counter / 15.6, Bank / 23'3'' by 20.0 / 9.7 high, Desks (3 times), Closet, Kitchen, (pencil) steps numbered 1-9, Pantry, (pencil) ?Scul[lery], 11.6, 19.6, (pencil) New Stove, Back Kitchen, (pencil) 16 or 17 feet, Sheds for Coals Wood &c, Servants WC, Clerks WC, Lobby, Passage, 3'3'', Door (twice), Staircase, Closet, Stone Steps, Stairs to / Strong Room
72 labelled: Hall, Porters Room, Book Room, Agents / Private / Room, Bank, Garden, Wash house / & / Scullery, Pantry &c, Kitchen, Yard, Cottages, Passage to Garden &c, steps numbered 1-9, Coals &c, Servants, Clerks / WC, (pencil) Passage, Staircase, Closet, (pencil) North, and some dimensions given
73 as above, labelled: No 7, 23.0 by 18.0, No 8, 18.0 by 20.0, 15'6'' by 16'0'', No 9, No 10, No 11, Staircase, Water Closet, China Closet, (pencil): Marble Ch[imney], Dining Room, remove door, Drawing / Room, Best Bed / Chamber, Marble / Chy / &c, Dressing / Room, Butlers Room, Sash and C / 12
Signed and dated
- (70, 71) Lincolns Inn Fields / March 1829 and as above ('29 April 1829') and (70) (Soane) '4 May 1829' (72) 30th March 1829 (73) L I Fields / March 1829
Medium and dimensions
(70, 71) Pen, pencil, sepia, warm sepia, grey, pink, burnt umber and Naples yellow washes, pricked for transfer within a double ruled border on wove paper (728 x 529, 731 x 529) (70) with flier on wove paper (133 x 142) (72) pencil, pen, sepia and pink washes, pricked for transfer on thin wove paper (324 x 500) (73) pen, sepia, burnt Sienna, pink and burnt umber washes, pricked for transfer within a double ruled border on wove paper (363 x 530)
Hand
(70-73) George Bailey (1792-1860, pupil then assistant 1806-37, curator 1837-60)
Watermark
(70, 71) Smith & Allnutt 1827
Notes
Alterations to the bank, shown in pink wash on all of the drawings, include the addition of a double-walled book room and two sets of dog-leg stairs, as well as new outbuildings to include a lobby, clerk's and servants' water closets and shed. Both drawings 70 and 71 show, in pencil, the partition in the entrance hall 'approved by the committee' on 29 April. The wall between the bank and Mr Gidney's house is shown as being rebuilt, following the recommendation of Thomas Heath, clerk of works (in drawing 67). Variations drawings 70 and 71 include the passage off the entrance hall, the lobby before the back kitchen and the closet in the centre of the building. In drawing 72 the coal shed occupies a different position in the yard. Alterations to the one pair floor (drawing 73) centre around the new staircase in the south-east corner of the building.
Level
Drawing
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