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- July 1801
July 1801
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This design for the ground floor shows that it has three principal rooms and two smaller rooms, and a narrow entrance hall with steps. A plan at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (DR1983:0859) shows that these rooms are (clockwise from bottom left) the Drawing Room, Store Closet, Eating Room, Mr Robins' Room and the Breakfast Room. There is a water closet on the half-landing of the staircase. Externally, the centre of the entrance front is recessed. The large room at the back of the house has a single, large window. In pencil to the right of the plan are rough drawings of planting, suggestive of the landscaping of the grounds.
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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