Survey drawings of the temporary Privy Council Chamber, 1827 (2)

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  - London: Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, Whitehall & Downing Street: designs for new offices and scheme for the improvement of Downing Street, 1823-33 (284)
    - Designs for the new government buildings on Whitehall and the completion of Downing Street with a Triumphal Arch, December 1825-May 1833 (100)

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Reference number

SM (247) 49/1/36 (248) 49/1/37

Purpose

Survey drawings of the temporary Privy Council Chamber, 1827 (2)

Aspect

247 Plan of the Temporary Privy Council Chamber in Whitehall Place 248 Plan of the Temporary Privy Council Chamber in Whitehall Place

Scale

(247, 248) bar scales of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

247 as above, labelled: Press, Table to Move (twice), Bar (8 times), Seat, Glass (twice), Councellers (sic), 5 Chairs (twice), 10 Chairs, Lords in Waiting, (pencil) Council Offices and dimensions given 248 as above, labelled: Late Tempory Councell Room (sic) and dimensions given

Signed and dated

(247, 248) 1827

Medium and dimensions

(247) Pen, grey, yellow and blue washes, (248) pen, yellow and blue washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper with one fold mark (648 x 500, 621 x 481)

Hand

(247, 248) ?clerk of works

Watermark

(247, 248) 1821

Notes

While the new Privy Council Offices were being built the council was temporarily removed to a newly-built vacant house, 'very conveniently situated on the south east angle of Whitehall Place'. It was leased to the Council by a Mr John Holroyd for £600 per annum on the condition that any alterations would be reversed by the Office of Works when the lease was terminated (WORK 1/13, p. 86). The house no longer survives.
On the verso of drawing 248 is a rough, unfinished pencil drawing of the new Privy Council Chamber.

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Drawing

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