[1] Survey of outbuildings, 1817

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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: Buckingham Palace, Westminster: surveys and designs, 1817-? (8)

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Reference number

SM 37/2/15

Purpose

[1] Survey of outbuildings, 1817

Aspect

Plan of part of the Offices at the Queen's Palace (Buckingham House)

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled: Closet (4 times), Step, Pump / to Water / Closet, to hold / Sedan / Chair, Coal Box, Cinders, Store for Coals, Dust hole, Lamp Lighter's / Shed, Bricklayer's / Shed, Engine house, Store Room, Carpenter's / Shop, Book Binder's / Stamp Shop, Smith's / Shop, Glazier's Shop, Carpenter's Shop

Signed and dated

1817
1817

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pricked for transfer on wove paper (408 x 535)

Hand

Soane Office

Watermark

J Whatman / 1804

Notes

The outbuildings are to the east of the original house, according to a plan in King's Works, V, p. 135. The large, octagonal building shown in this survey is the library, later converted into a chapel (now the site of the Queen's Gallery). The outbuildings include store sheds and workshops for various servants: the lamp lighter, the bricklayer, the carpenter, the book binder, the smith and the glazier. This survey was made after Soane's report in November 1816 in which he recommended rebuilding some of the outbuildings 'in a more corrected plan' (King's Works, VI, p. 262). In his ninth lecture to the Royal Academy, Soane had spoken of the 'domestic offices' at Buckingham House, which were 'arranged in the front of the main building, and connected therewith... but I cannot think it advisable to contract a large front... but would rather leave the opening clear and spacious' (quoted in Watkin, Enlightenment Thought, p. 620).

Level

Drawing

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