[2] Plan of ground floor 'A'

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - Reading, Berkshire: Friar Street, house for Lancelot Austwick, 1796 (32)
    - Designs made March 1796 (12)

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Reference number

SM 2/7B/1

Purpose

[2] Plan of ground floor 'A'

Aspect

Plan of the Ground Floor

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, A, Lancelot Austwick Esq^r, rooms labelled: Office, Parlour, Area, Passage, A B C, Kitchen, Washouse / and / Scullery, Pantry and A. Way into the Cellars from the / Passage, and under the Staircase B, C. In the finishig this Room / would be in every respect / regular, with Closet at the / end/ 58 / B / 4 Sheets and (added later in pencil) Case E. Inventory D p.153 / House at Reading (verso) Lancelot Austwick

Signed and dated

John Soane Arch^t March 11^th 1796
11/03/1796
John Soane Arch^t March 11^th 1796

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia washes with quadruple ruled and dark sepia and yellow ochre washes border on laid paper, recent repairs to four edges (585 x 473)

Hand

Soane office hand (no entry in Day Book)

Watermark

J Larking and fleur de lis above cartouche with bar and below, GR

Notes

A comparison with drawing [1] shows that the wing with ? brewery and servants' accommodation has been removed so that there is now only one extension to the house (left-hand side). The stair is geometrical and placed towards the left-hand side. The front room 'Office' has lost the rounded-off corners shown in drawing [1].

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Drawing

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