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[1] Design, July 1777
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Reference number
SM 64/6/41
Purpose
[1] Design, July 1777
Aspect
Plan and elevation labelled Stable & Cow Yard, Farm Yard and Rick Yard
Scale
1/16 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
as above, Elevation next the Road, Road through the Yard to Cadlands Quay, NB The dotted lines shew the situation / of the old Farm house, labelled A Turkeys with Dove house over, Rosting [roosting?], Setting, Dogs, Warm'd Lodge, Boiling room, Dog, Bitches, Hack Stable, Saddle / room, Hogs, Cistern, Sows, Calves, Cows, Closet, Keeper, Scalding / room, Dairy - all this on three sides of the stable and cow yard and with the yard divided into Poultry Court / & / Garden, Green Yard(s) and with paved areas fronting the kennels. The farmyard has around it a Carthouse, Ox house, Slaughter house, Bailiff, Washouse, Farming Utensils, Chaff room, Carthorse Stable and there is a covered way or covered passage around the perimeter. The rick yard has a Barn and a Granary. Dimensions are given for all of these farm buildings.
Signed and dated
- July 1777
July 1777
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia washes, pencil on laid paper (461 x 676)
Hand
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane
Soane
Watermark
J Whatman, fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche with GR below
Literature
P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.259-61
Level
Drawing
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