[6] Survey plan of the chamber floor with offices

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  - Hinton St George, Somerset: survey drawings and unexecuted designs for alterations and additions, and for a lodge, for 4th Earl Poulett, 1796-7 (17)
    - Survey drawings, 1796 (8)

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Reference number

SM 6/3/6

Purpose

[6] Survey plan of the chamber floor with offices

Aspect

Plan of the Chamber floor

Scale

bar scale of 1/15 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, Earl Poulett, Hinton S^t George, Upper Part / of Yellow Room, Upper Part / of State Chamber, Upper Part of Saloon, Wardrobe, Chamber (8 times), Lord Hinton's / Chamber, Nursery Apartments, Nursery / Dining Room, Nursery / Kitchen, Closet and (eastern side) Hay Loft, Bedroom (4 times), Saddles, Straw Loft, Upper Part of Riding House, Hay Loft, Bedroom (twice), Granary, Wheat (twice), Oats (3 times) and dimensions given

Signed and dated

1796
1796

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia washes on coarse laid paper with six fold marks (556 x 671)

Hand

Thomas Jeans (c.1775 -1866), pupil August 1792-25 August 1797.
The Soane office Day Book for 1796 shows that Thomas Jeans left London on the morning of 5 August 1796 to take plans of Hinton St George. He returned on the evening of 27 August. He then spent much of the time between 29 August and 12 September drawing out plans, elevations and sections. The expenses of his trip came to £4:17:9d for which Earl Poulett was billed on 19 September 1796.

Notes

The chamber floor contains the upper parts of three reception rooms and at the same level is the upper part of the riding house. The nursery with kitchen, dining room and several bedrooms is a distant and self-contained entity. As are the stables with bedrooms for grooms and storage for straw, hay, wheat and oats.

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Drawing

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