[17] Design for a lodge and gate piers

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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)
    - Design for lodge house and piers, 1796

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Reference number

SM 62/8/25

Purpose

[17] Design for a lodge and gate piers

Aspect

Plans and elevations of lodge and piers with (feint pencil) sketch elevation of piers and details of scroll

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Earl Poulett Hinton S^t George, Plan of the Ground Floor, Plan of the One Pair Floor, rooms labelled: Pay Office, Porter, Closet and Paved Floor (twice), noted: Walls already built, * NB One of these doors to be stopped / up when the Rooms are finished, Joists 9 by 3, Ground Joists 5 by 3 each, Center of Road, These Piers are to be of Ham Hill Stone / & all the Walls are to be built with Bricks, Profiles 3 ft, and dimensions given

Signed and dated

11/08/1796
J.Soane Arch^t Aug: 11 1796

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, added brown pen and pencil on laid secretary paper with four folds (327 x 409)

Hand

Thomas Jeans (c.1775-1866), pupil August 1792-March 1793 and Soane (the notes)

Watermark

Britannia with lance, shield and olive branch within crowned circle

Notes

The lodge was partly used as a 'Pay Office' presumably for the outdoor staff of the estate. The lodge is little more than a box and the note - 'Walls already built' suggests that Soane was completing something already begun. The piers were to be built from the local Ham Hill limestone finished off by Soane's characteristic detail of four small pediments with antefixae at the corners.

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