[1] Design for a cowhouse, plan and elevation, 1783

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Burn Hall, County Durham: designs for a cow house for George Smith, June 1783 (4)
    - Design and record copies, 1783 (4)

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Reference number

SM 64/3/99

Purpose

[1] Design for a cowhouse, plan and elevation, 1783

Aspect

The [ground floor] Plan of a Design to contain 30 Cows, Calves &c and Elevation of the back front of a Design for a Cowhouse

Scale

with scale bar of 1/9 in to 1 ft (approximately)

Inscribed

as above, George Smith Esqr,All the windows in the North front are proposed to be glazed; the others Louvre boarded, Height of the Rooms 12 feet, labelled 4 Cows, 7 Cows, 15 feet Squ^re, Calves,The Passage of communication, Bull and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1783
J Soane Margaret S^tCavendish Square (pencil) London
Datable to 1783 in accord with drawings 2-4

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and light green washes, some watercolour technique, shaded, pencil added later, partly pricked for transfer, within double ruled and black wash border on laid paper with three fold marks (442 x 574)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane

Watermark

J Whatman, fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar, and below, ornate W

Literature

J.Soane, Plans, elevations and sections of buildings ..., 1788, pl. XXXVI; P.du Prey, 'Oblivion for Soane's cow barn?', Country Life, 1976, CLIX, p.84; P.du Prey, John Soane; the making of an architect, 1982, pp.9-10; D. Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect, 2nd ed. 1996, pp.54, 241; P.Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.168; M.Richardson and M.Stevens (eds), John Soane architect: master of space and light, 1999, p.120

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Drawing

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