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: unexecuted alternative designs for a doghouse for Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry and 4th Earl of Bristol, 1778-9 and later (4)  
Soane’s alternative designs for a doghouse for the pack of foxhounds belonging to the son of the Bishop of Derry were made in late December 1778 or early in 1779. Soane produced two designs both with a triangular plan with one in a Neo-Classical style and the other in a Classical style. Nothing came from this casual request for ‘some idea of a classical dog-kennel’ and the only surviving early drawing is a copy of the Neo-Classical design (No.1). In 1781 Soane exhibited a ‘Design for a doghouse’ at the Royal Academy; it is not known which of the alternative designs was exhibited. In 1811 or after, record drawings were made of the Classical design (Nos 3-4). Soane’s Designs for Public and Private Buildings (1828, plate xxxiv ***) illustrates a‘design for a residence for a canine family in modern times’ and the same ‘… for a canine family in ancient times’. That is, a Neo-Classical design (design A, elevation and plan after No.1) and a Classical design (design B, elevation after No.4). For his unpublished ‘Memoirs of the professional life of an architect between the years 1768 and 1835’, Soane chose the Neo-Classical design (No.2) as an illustration.

In fact, allowing for the elaborate sculptural programme, heavy rustication, drum, and a greater number of (free-standing) columns, the designs are not dissimilar - design A, a stripped down, simpler version of B with both having a three-part plan with concave sides and a (Pantheon-type) domed centre. Both designs loosely belong to a family of ideal projects made while in Italy, for example, ‘Castello d’acqua’, Chatham mausoleum, Unidentified mausoleum on an X-plan and, in particular the triangular Unidentified design for a bath (q.q.q.q.v).

The (Earl-)Bishop apparently maintained his interest in building a doghouse. An unexecuted design signed by James Malton (1765-1803), inscribed ‘Proposal for a triangular building’, dated 1792 and with staffage that includes the Bishop is described by Desmond Guinness (see below).

Literature. P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp.159-62: P.du Prey, '"Je n'oublieray jamais": John Soane and Downhill', Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, XXI, Nos 3&4, 1978, pp.19-20; D.Guinness, ‘An unpublished watercolour by James Malton from the collection of Desmond Guinness', Journal of the Irish Georgian Society, VI, 2003, pp.226-37
Purpose:Design A in a Neo-Classical style, December 1778 or early 1779
Aspect:1 ELEVATION AND PLAN OF A DOG HOUSE DESIGNED FOR A NOBLEMAN ROMAE 1778: the plan is triangular having 3 long concave sides and 3 short, straight sides enclosing a rotunda and all within a railed circular exercise yard; between each of 3 wings is a circular drinking basin. The elevation has a Pantheon-type dome and flanking each of the 3 entrances to the rotunda is a pair of attached Greek Doric columns. Six sculpted hounds guard the roof and another decorates the weathervane.

 
Hand:Soane
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Purpose:Record drawing of design A, 1835 or after
Aspect:2 Plan, elevation and bird's eye view of the design shown on drawing 1 though the plan is drawn more schematically; the bird's eye view shows three small box-like buildings against the perimeter wall
Hand:Soane
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Purpose:Re-drawings of design B in a Classical style, 1811 or after, ?1820 (2)
Aspect:3-4 Plan (with revisions) and elevation. The plan (the same as in drawings 1 and 2 though the proportions are different) with 3 identical wings centred on a rotunda within a circular exercise yard; pencil revisions (by Soane) to the perimeter wall extend it and add an entrance and a small building (store?). For the elevation Soane used (below the dome) the frieze found at the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli, exchanging dog heads for bucrania while the baseless, fluted Greek columns come from Paestum. The drum has a sculpted frieze depicting a fox hunt, the dome is crowned by a finial made up of hounds, the enclosing wall has more friezes of scenes of the chase and supports sculpted hounds, pairs of sculpted hounds sitting on pedestals below heraldic arms flanked by hounds and two living hounds drink from a basin with fountain

 
Hand:office, Soane revisions
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