[9] Record alternative design for a new house: plan and elevation

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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 volume 62/64

Purpose

[9] Record alternative design for a new house: plan and elevation

Aspect

Plan of the Hall floor

Scale

bar scale of 1/13 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

T.P.Phipps / The Entrance front of a Design proposed, rooms labelled: Porch, Hall, Drawing Room, Breakfast / Room, Eating Room, Library and Dressing / Room

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and blue washes, shaded mounted on on thin laid paper (363 x 237) on page 64 of volume 62

Hand

Soane Office

Notes

The plan form is close to that of drawing [8] though slightly wider. The two stairs are next to each other and both are of the half-turn with landings type. The elevation has three bays either side of a generous door and is articulated by six pilasters, the centre four supporting a pediment; antefixae ornament the parapet.

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