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Reference number
SM 6/2/7
Purpose
[1] Survey plans and elevation
Aspect
Survey plans of ground and first floors and survey of the principal elevation
Scale
bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
The Earl of Ailesbury Bagden House. Plan of the Chamber Floor, B is 2' 11" lower than A, running dimensions given and (verso, by a late rhand) The Earl of Aylesbury (In fact, Ailesbury is the correct spelling.)
Signed and dated
- June 1795
Lincolns Inn Fields June 1795
Medium and dimensions
Pen and sepia washes, pricked for transfer on thin wove paper with three fold marks (544 x 617)
Hand
Soane office
Notes
The house is of two storeys with a seven bay front divided by four plain pilasters. The door has a shouldered architrave and has four steps to it. The plan (which is not labelled) is roughly an inverted L-shape with the addition of a single-storey service wing to the ground floor. There are four rooms each to the ground and first floors and a half-turn with landings staircase. The note that 'B is 2'11" lower than A' suggests a problem with levels that also emerges in drawing [14].
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk