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Cockley Cley, Norfolk: designs for alterations and additions to the offices for John Richard Dashwood, 10 August 1790 (2)

1790
By 1790 Soane had in his office, three clerks and five pupils. SM 29/5B/1 and SM 29/5B/2 are virtually identical and were drawn by John Sanders who, articled in 1784, was nearing the end of his apprenticeship; by now a confident draughtsman, he added three trees in pen and wash. It is clear from the account books that between 1784 and 1790 a number of drawings were made for the late seventeenth-century Cockley Cley Hall, but none have survived apart from the copies catalogued here. These have large old water stains and possibly, the related drawings were more severely water-damaged and thus discarded.

Soane's Account Book 1781-86 has entries under Dashwood (p.49) that begin on 20 April 1784 'At Cockley Cley. Took a / Plan of the House & Offices' and, 3 June, 'Sent a design a sheet of / paper / plan and Elevation'. Further entries mention a design for two cottages and on 17 May 1786 'Sketch of Alterations to Offices'.

Soane's Ledger A has under Dashwood (pp.24-25, 64) entries that start on 20 April 1784 and continue to 18 July 1790 when there is an entry: 'Left a drawing of a design for Addns / to Offices on a sheet of Cartr[idge] / Paper and two layovers (sic) the / whole mak[in]g 3 designs'. An entry for 10 August 1790 has 'Sent two designs for Alterations / and Additions to Offices each / on a sheet of Copy Paper [£]15.15.0'. Presumably four copies were made in all - two for the client and two for the office.

Sold by the Dashwood family early in the nineteenth-century, the house and offices were rebuilt in an Italianate style, 1870-71.

Jill Lever, June 2009
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