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Cockley Cley, Norfolk: designs for alterations and additions to the offices for John Richard Dashwood, 10 August 1790 (2)

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  • 1790

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By 1790 Soane had in his office, three clerks and five pupils. SM 29/5B/1 and SM 29/5B/2 are virtually identical and were drawn by John Sanders who, articled in 1784, was nearing the end of his apprenticeship; by now a confident draughtsman, he added three trees in pen and wash. It is clear from the account books that between 1784 and 1790 a number of drawings were made for the late seventeenth-century Cockley Cley Hall, but none have survived apart from the copies catalogued here. These have large old water stains and possibly, the related drawings were more severely water-damaged and thus discarded.

Soane's Account Book 1781-86 has entries under Dashwood (p.49) that begin on 20 April 1784 'At Cockley Cley. Took a / Plan of the House & Offices' and, 3 June, 'Sent a design a sheet of / paper / plan and Elevation'. Further entries mention a design for two cottages and on 17 May 1786 'Sketch of Alterations to Offices'.

Soane's Ledger A has under Dashwood (pp.24-25, 64) entries that start on 20 April 1784 and continue to 18 July 1790 when there is an entry: 'Left a drawing of a design for Addns / to Offices on a sheet of Cartr[idge] / Paper and two layovers (sic) the / whole mak[in]g 3 designs'. An entry for 10 August 1790 has 'Sent two designs for Alterations / and Additions to Offices each / on a sheet of Copy Paper [£]15.15.0'. Presumably four copies were made in all - two for the client and two for the office.

Sold by the Dashwood family early in the nineteenth-century, the house and offices were rebuilt in an Italianate style, 1870-71.

Jill Lever, June 2009

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