| Soane had met Philip Yorke in Italy and the first commission he received was a for highly finished measured drawing of the Corsini Chapel in the church of San Giovanni in Laterano, dated July 1779 (q.v.). Yorke's patronage continued throughout the 1780s and on succeeding to the earldom in 1790, he asked Soane to remodel Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire. As well as his work at Hamels, Soane was also consulted on repairs to Yorke's town house in Park Street, London (Copy of Estimate of repairs, 1781: SM volume 41/12verso-13verso, February 1784). See also following catalogue entry for a dairy at Hamels Park. |
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| Purpose: | Working drawing and record copy of design for gate and lodges, 1781 (2)
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| Aspect: | 1 Plan of ground floor, Plan of the Bedchamber, Elevation next the Road, Elevation next the Park, Elevation on the line A, Section of the External Walls of the Octangular Rooms with (pencil) revised details including lamp holders and cornice 2 Plan of two floors and front and back elevation, without the lamp holders, presumably a neat copy after drawing 1 or a lost original |
| Hand: | 1-2 Except for the sketch details of lamp holders on drawing 1, the drawings are not by Soane. Both drawings are in the same hand. See Notes below on Thomas Malton (1752-1804)
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| Purpose: | Survey plan of the offices showing proposed alterations, 15 May 1787 |
| Aspect: | 3 (inscribed ? Baldwin) Plan of the Offices at Hammels (inscribed Soane) with the proposed Alterations / (added in another hand) the Seat of Philip Yorke Esqre and a rough, feint pencil plan
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| Hand: | Soane /?Baldwin |
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| Purpose: | Working drawings and copy of design for hothouses and gardeners' cottage, 27 April 1793 (3)
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| Aspect: | 4 T-shaped plan labelled: Pinery with alternating Columns and Air Hole[s], Washouse with Stairs to Gardeners / apartments, Seed room, Peachery with Columns and two adjacent Cistern[s], Passage (three times), Fire (twice) indicating flues to pineries and peacheries, and dimensions given 5 Longitudinal sections through hothouses to accompany drawing 4 with small rough (pencil) plan 6 Elevation & Sections of the Hothouses and Gardeners House at Hammells Herts and (verso) Plan of the Hothouses at Hammells Herts and plan of upper floor of gardeners' house |
| Hand: | (4-5) office (SM Day Book missing); (6) an entry in the relevant SM Day Book has 'Goode' (sic) that is Joseph Henry Good (pupil 11 July 1795-1800) |
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| Purpose: | Yorke Place / Design for Ten Houses & Gardens for Philip Yorke Esqr, 6 September 1784
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| Aspect: | 7 Site plan with five pairs of semi-detached houses arranged around a semi-elliptical crescent, and elevation of three types of house: the centre pair with an attic floor and thus taller than the others and with a broken-bed pediment, on either side a pair of houses with similar elevations to the centre one but without an attic floor and pediment and, at each end, a more rustic design that has the roof and simplified Wyatt windows of the other designs but with a single-pitched roof to the side and (left-hand pair) latticed window glass; sketch detail of an alternative design for a three-part window with Gothic arches; (verso) feint (pencil) plan and perspective |
| Hand: | Soane, inscriptions by ? Robert Baldwin (fl.1762-c.1804) |
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