[13] As built plan of basement floor

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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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  - London: 21 St James's Square: unexecuted design by Soane, June 1794; as built design by R.F.Brettingham, July 1795, earlier design by Brettingham and Soane's designs for fittings1795, 1797 for the 5th Duke of Leeds, 1794-7
    - As built drawings of the house designed by Brettingham, July 1794 [13] - [20]

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Reference number

SM volume 66/41

Purpose

[13] As built plan of basement floor

Aspect

Basement Story as Built

Scale

bar scale of 1/9 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, The Duke of Leeds, rooms labelled: Passage (six times), Area (three times), Engine Room, Kitchen, Washouse, Cellar (five times), Beer Cellar, Cistern, Light (skylight) and dimensions given including some vertical dimensions

Signed and dated

Lincolns Inn Fields July 1^st 1794

Medium and dimensions

Pen, black, sepia and blue washes with quadruple ruled and black wash border on wove paper (700 x 494) on page 41 of volume 66

Notes

The plan of the basement shows it divided into three parts that are each separated by an 'area'. Excluding the cellars under the pavement, the front part, washed in black, has four storeys above it. The end part washed in a medium sepia includes the kitchen and the laundry (with a stair) and would have been two-storeyed. With a cistern and a glazed roof it is separated by another 'area' from the middle part indicated by a pale sepia wash. This was presumably one storey high and would have been covered so as to make a paved garden. The house next door, No.20 St James's Square, designed by Robert Adam for Sir Watkins William Wynn in 1771-5 had a paved court with a handsome garden screen.*

*The drawings for a 'screen wall to courtyard at back' are in the Adam collection of the Soane Museum (volume 40, 72 and 73) (together with drawings for the house).

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