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Design for the ground floor, 28 April 1826
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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
SM 51/3/15
Purpose
Design for the ground floor, 28 April 1826
Aspect
Plan of the Ground Floor
Inscribed
as above, labelled (pencil): Kitchen, Vote Office, Waiting / Room, Clerk of the Journals / and Copying Clerk, Six Clerks, (pen) 24'4'' by 33'9'', Minute Room, (pen) 31'9'' by 30'0'', Two Clerks, (pen) 24'4'' by 19'0''
Signed and dated
- 28 April 1826
LIF 28 April 1826
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pink and dark pink washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (512 x 543)
Hand
Soane Office
Watermark
Smith & Allnutt
Notes
The new design for the Lords' Committee Rooms is significantly smaller than the previous design (SM 51/3/17-19), being about 28 feet narrower on the north and south sides. There are also fewer rooms in the new design. These are a 'minute room' and two clerks' rooms (there are eight clerks in total), a corridor and a water closet on the ground floor. This design also features an inexplicably long, geometric staircase. Another alteration is the addition of a canted bay to the north east corner of the existing committee rooms. The cost of the new works was estimated at £14,000.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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