[7] Design for alterations and additions: ground plan

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [7] Design for alterations and additions: ground plan

Browse

Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Little Green, Sussex: unexecuted alternative designs for alterations and additions, and for a new house, for Thomas P.Phipps, 1795-6 (9)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM 46/3/1

Purpose

[7] Design for alterations and additions: ground plan

Aspect

Ground plan of houses, stables and of grounds, and front elevation of house and offices

Scale

bar scale of 1/16 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Tho^sP. Phipps, Esq^r,rooms etc labelled: Library, Mr Phipps / Dressing Room, Butler, House Keepers / Room, House Keepers / Store Room, Larder, Kitchen, Washouse / and / Bakehouse, Laundry, Brewhouse, Well, Chicken / Coops, Drying Grounds, Wood Yard, Stables (twice), Coachouses (twice) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

Copy Lincolns Inn Fields May 30^{t^h}1796

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and red washes, some pencil on thin wove paper (339 x 545)

Hand

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

Notes

Soane's proposed addition is shown to be on the south side of the existing house and the corresponding elevation is five bays wide with pilasters framing the end bays. The elevation shows also the domestic offices with low store rooms and the greater height of washouse and bakehouse. Chickens and drying ground are nearby, the stables further off and all seems quietly purposeful.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).