Working drawing for the new committee rooms, 1826

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  - London: Palace of Westminster: designs for alterations and additions, 1793-1828 (499)
    - London: House of Lords, Palace of Westminster: alterations and additions, 1817-28 (220)
      - New committee rooms and library, 1824-27 (56)
        Working drawings for the new committee rooms, October 1826

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Reference number

SM 51/3/27

Purpose

Working drawing for the new committee rooms, 1826

Aspect

Plan of the Ground Floor

Scale

bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, New Committee Rooms / House of Lords, labelled: Door (twice), Flue for / Hot air, Staircase and dimensions given

Signed and dated

1826
1826

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, pink and grey washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (532 x 718)

Hand

Soane Office

Watermark

Smith & Allnutt 1820

Notes

The edge of the drawing appears to have been cut off. In the wall between the staircase and the largest committee room is a 'flue for hot air'. This was a relatively new method of heating but presumably used here as the upper and lower floors of the new building were intended for the safe-keeping of records and papers. Despite this, there are chimneypieces in every room. The pencil additions are beams.

Level

Drawing

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