[10 ] Rough design for plan of alterations and additions to the ground floor rooms

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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)
    - Unexecuted designs for alterations and additions, 1796-7 (8)

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Reference number

SM 6/3/1

Purpose

[10 ] Rough design for plan of alterations and additions to the ground floor rooms

Aspect

Unfinished plan of house and offices with Soane's roughed- in alterations and (Soane) rough plan of entrance of entrance (verso) Chamber Plan of the House (a copy of drawing [5])

Scale

to a scale of 1/15 inch to 1 foot; (verso) to a scale of 1/7 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Earl Poullet and Sketch of a design for the proposed Alterations and Additions at Hinton S^t George, door, the rough plan of the entrance labelled: Hall and equal (3 times) (verso) as above, Earl Poullet, Hinton S^t George and vertical dimensions given

Signed and dated

1797 (verso) Copy Aug: 1796
May 1797

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, added brown pen on coarse wove paper with two fold marks (641 x 504) (verso) pen and light (faded) red wash

Hand

Thomas Jeans (c.1775-1866), pupil August 1792-25 August 1797 with additions (brown pen) by Soane

Notes

Soane had drawn-in over a general plan of the house and offices a design for a new entrance on a segmental plan and the re-shaping of the reception rooms shown on drawing [9] dated 15 October 1796. It seems that [10] should precede [9] but nevertheless it is dated 1797.
There is an interior perspective of the Saloon in the British architectural drawings collection of Yale University, U.S.A.(copy in SM files) which shows a canopy domed ceiling with a circular lantern. This may relate to Soane's sketchy plan of the Saloon in the drawing catalogued here and also drawing [9]. See drawings [12] and [14] for alternative ceiling designs.

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Drawing

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