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Little Green, Sussex: unexecuted alternative designs for alterations and additions, and for a new house, for Thomas P.Phipps, 1795-6 (9)
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Little Green, Sussex: unexecuted alternative designs for alterations and additions, and for a new house, for Thomas P.Phipps, 1795-6 (9)
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Neither Soane's designs for a new house [1], [8] and [9] nor those for an addition [2]-[7] were carried out.
Soane's office account book 'Ledger B' has an entry under Thomas Peckham Phipps Esqr for travel time and travel expenses (£16.16.0) of a visit to Little Green; the distance was 'aboout 70 Miles'. Drawings were sent in September and November and on 23 December 1795 Soane sent in a bill that came to £44.2.0. This included 6 days 'making the ... designs' at three guineas a day and 'Clerks time in making fair Drawings 8 guinease'. With travel expenses the bill came to £44.2.0 and within three days, Soane actually received £50.0.0.
Literature. P.du Prey, Sir John Soane, 1985, in series of 'Catalogues of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum', catalogue 83, p.48; P.Dean, Sir John Soane andthe country estate, 1999, p.187.
Jill lever
December 2014
Soane's office account book 'Ledger B' has an entry under Thomas Peckham Phipps Esqr for travel time and travel expenses (£16.16.0) of a visit to Little Green; the distance was 'aboout 70 Miles'. Drawings were sent in September and November and on 23 December 1795 Soane sent in a bill that came to £44.2.0. This included 6 days 'making the ... designs' at three guineas a day and 'Clerks time in making fair Drawings 8 guinease'. With travel expenses the bill came to £44.2.0 and within three days, Soane actually received £50.0.0.
Literature. P.du Prey, Sir John Soane, 1985, in series of 'Catalogues of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum', catalogue 83, p.48; P.Dean, Sir John Soane andthe country estate, 1999, p.187.
Jill lever
December 2014
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Contents of Little Green, Sussex: unexecuted alternative designs for alterations and additions, and for a new house, for Thomas P.Phipps, 1795-6 (9)
- [1] Alternative designs for a new house: plans of ground and first floors
- [2] Design No1 for alterations and addditions: ground floor plan
- [3] Design No1 for alterations and additions: first floor plan
- [4] Design No2 for alterations and additions: ground floor plan
- [5] Design No2 for alterations and addition: first floor plan
- [6] Design No3 for alterations and additions: first floor plan
- [7] Design for alterations and additions: ground plan
- [8] Record design for a new house: plan and elevation
- [9] Record alternative design for a new house: plan and elevation