[4] Design No2 for alterations and additions: ground floor plan

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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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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Reference number

SM 46/3/5

Purpose

[4] Design No2 for alterations and additions: ground floor plan

Aspect

The Plan of the Ground Floor

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, Thomas Peckham Phipps Esq^r, N^o2, rooms labelled: Withdrawing Room, Eating Room, Best Staircase, Vestibule, Breakfast Room, House Keepers Room, Library, Dressing Room, Passage to Offices, Butlers Pantry and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

Lincolns Inn Fields March 15: 1796

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and Indian red washes, partly pricked for transfer, with quadruple ruled and sepia wash border, on laid paper with one fold mark (476 x 659)

Hand

Thomas Jeans (c.1775-1866) pupil August 1792-25 August 1797

Watermark

James Whatman 1794 fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche and below, ornate W

Notes

Design 2 (drawings [4] and [5]) is for the addition of an eating room, withdrawing room, new (geometric) stair, vestibule and loggia to the ground floor and a bedroom, three dressing rooms and a lady's dressing room (with bookcases) to the upper floor.

Level

Drawing

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