Sir John Soane's Museum Drawings
The Drawings of John Soane, 1770 to 1785
Soane's early works from 1777 to 1785 
Allanbank, Berwickshire: survey drawings and preliminary design for addition of wings, unexecuted, for John Stuart later 4th Baronet, September-October 1780 (3)
Benacre Hall, Suffolk: unexecuted designs for lodges for Sir Thomas Gooch Bt., c.1785 (2)
Blundeston House, Suffolk: design and record copies of working drawings for Nathaniel Rix, 1785-6 (9)  
Burn Hall, County Durham: design for a cow house for George Smith, June 1783 (4) 
Cadland, Hampshire: farmyard and buildings for the Hon. Rupert Drummond, July 1777 (2)
Castle Eden, County Durham Durham: survey drawing, sketch design for a porch, sketch alternative designs and design for a villa, and for stables, for Rowland Burdon, October 1780 (4)
Chillington Hall, Staffordshire: design, working and record drawings for alterations and additions for Thomas Giffard, 1785-90 (25) 
Cockley Cley, Norfolk: copies of a design for alterations and additions to offices for John Richard Dashwood, 10 August 1790 (2)  
Coombe House, Kingston-upon Thames, London: record drawing of a design for a drawing room door for the Hon. Wilbraham Tollemache, c.1781  see 148 Piccadilly, London
Downhill: County Derry, Northern Ireland: unexecuted designs for a summer dining room, and for alterations and additions, for Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry and 4th Earl of Bristol, 1778-80 (11)  
Downhill: County Derry, Northern Ireland: unexecuted alternative designs for a doghouse for Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry and 4th Earl of Bristol, 1778-9 and later (4)  
Downhill: County Derry, Northern Ireland: preliminary design, revised design and copy of modified design for a mausoleum for Lord George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol (died 1775) for Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry and 4th Earl of Bristol, c.1778-1781, with perspective by J.M.Gandy, 1800 (4)  
Earsham, Norfolk: designs for conversion of a garden building to a music room and for alterations and additions to the offices, for William Windham, 28 September 1784-1785 (4)
Great Dunmow, Essex: preliminary design for a house for Michael Pepper, January 1784
Hammels Park, Hertfordshire: designs for gateway and lodges 1781, alterations to offices, 1787, hothouses and gardeners' cottage, 1793 and unexecuted scheme for estate housing, 1784 for Hon. Philip Yorke later 3rd Earl of Hardwicke (7)  
Hammels Park, Hertfordshire: designs for a dairy in a primitive, rustic style for Mrs Yorke, 1783 (7)   
Hellesdon Bridge, near Norwich, Norfolk: unexecuted design, January 1785
Langley Park, Norfolk: record copies of unexecuted designs for gateway and (? hunting) lodge in a primitive, rustic style and executed designs and copies for two entrance lodges for Sir Thomas Proctor-Beauchamp, 1784-90 (13) 
Letton Hall, Norfolk: preliminary alternative designs, designs, working and record drawings, for Dillingham Brampton Gurdon Dillingham, 1783-89 (74)       
London: Adams Place, Borough High Street, Southwark: survey drawing and designs for houses and shops for Francis Adams, August 1781 (4)
London: Battersea: sketch designs, competition and copies of competition designs for a prison for 300 women and a prison for 600 men (with drawings by George Dance), 1781-2 (13)
London: Berkeley Square: sketch designs for alterations and additions for Mrs Perry, August 1782 see Online Catalogue of Soane's sketchbooks - 'Miscellaneous Sketches', 1780-2 (SM volume 40) 8r-10v, 11v-12r 
London: Church of St Mary Abbots graveyard, Kensington: preliminary design, design, contract drawing and record copies for a tomb for Miss Elizabeth Johnston, July 1784 (5)
London: Hereford Street, Grosvenor Square, Westminster: unexecuted designs for the Society of Dilettanti and for a library for Lord Camelford, 1784-5 (2)
London: 148 Picadilly: record drawing of a design for a drawing room door for the Hon. Wilbraham Tollemache, c.1781
London: St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, Old Street, Finsbury, Islington: alternative competition designs and later record drawings,  1777 (9)
Malvern Hall, Warwickshire: design, specification and estimate, and record drawings of designs for alterations and for addition of wings and porch for Henry Greswold Lewis, 1783-86 (15)
Rectory Manor, Walthamstow, London: record drawings of a design for additions  for William Cooke, 1784 (2)
Norwich: Blackfriars Bridge: contract, working and record drawings, 1783 and c.1785 (7)
Saxlingham Rectory, Norfolk: alternative designs, design and working drawings for a house for the Reverend John Gooch, 1784-87 (33)
Spencers Wood, Berkshire: unexecuted design for a house for William Sotheby, December 1781   
Taverham Hall, Norfolk: record copies of letter, designs and working drawings for an eating room and drawing room for Miles Sotherton Branthwayte, 1784-5 (11)
Tendring Hall, Suffolk: survey, designs and working drawings with record drawings for a house and offices together with specification, estimates and contract for Admiral Sir Joshua Rowley, 1783-89 (55) 
Unidentified: design for two chimney-pieces  for Richard Holland, January 1784
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> Downhill: County Derry, Northern Ireland: preliminary design, revised design and copy of modified design for a mausoleum for Lord George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol (died 1775) for Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry and 4th Earl of Bristol, c.1778-1781, with perspective by J.M.Gandy, 1800 (4)  
As built, the middle storey has an Ionic order and the base is ashlar with inset panels on each side; additional are an urn, paterae and a swag frieze; a variation of the design shown in drawing 1.  Drawings 2-4 are for a larger and more elaborate mausoleum. Plate xxxv of Soane's Designs in architecture, 1778, shows a design for a mausoleum with a rusticated basement with an arched opening quite similar to that of drawing 2.  

Erected to the memory of the Bishop's eldest brother, Lord George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, died 1775. An estimate from Michael Shanahan for £462.0s.9d was made in 1778 or early 1779 and construction followed until about 1783. Cupola and statue (upper storey) were blown down in a storm of January 1839 and were not replaced. 

Literature.  E.E.R.Green, 'Downhill Castle, County Derry, Northern Ireland', Country Life, 1950, CVII, p.38; P. Rankin, 'Downhill Co. Derry II', Country Life, 1971, CL, p.155; P. du Prey, John Soane’s architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp.178-80; P. du Prey,'Je n'oublieray jamais: John Soane and Downhill', Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, XXI Nos 3&4, 1978, pp.18-19; H. Colvin, Architecture and the after-life, 1991, p.353     
Purpose:Preliminary design, 1779  

 
Aspect:1 Elevation, rough plans and detail
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Purpose:Design, exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1781
Aspect:2 Perspective with part-plan
Hand:Soane
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Purpose:Record drawing, 1794 or later
Aspect:3 Elevation of domed cupola on a square rusticated basement with arched entrance, on a stepped terrace with large urns
Hand:pupil
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Purpose:Imaginative reconstruction drawing probably intended for exhibition  at the Royal Academy but not used, by J.M.Gandy, 21 February 1800
Aspect:4 Perspective
Hand:J.M.Gandy (1771-1843)
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