Sir John Soane's Museum Drawings
Purpose:Survey drawing and designs (4)

 

Aspect:1 Survey plan for Francis Adams Esqre  showing two large houses with shop fronts facing Borough High Street with an alley between them running into the cul de sac of Adams Place on the north side of which are three pairs of semi-detached houses with gardens in front and yards in between and with the Falcon public house at the eastern end.  On the south side are four pairs of smaller semi-detached houses with yards and no gardens and with the large carpenter's shop of Mr Reynolds at the western end.

2 Alternative Plan No 1 and Plan No 2 for houses No 1 to No 10 on the south side of Adams Place, Elevation of the Houses next the Ground to be let on building leases / forming one side of the Court (which is the Elevation of Plan No 1) and Elevation next the Borough [High Street] of a three-bay, three-storey, pedimented house with shopfronts, feint pencil section

3 Front Elevation next the Borough High Street for Francis Adams Esqre  of house of three storeys and attic and 7 feet high basement with shops on ground floor

4 Rough survey plan (in feint pencil) of part of the site with a feint pencil note Shed with / Workshop / over Mr J---- [illegible] house and some dimensions given, (verso, pen) Mr Adams / Adams Place Boro' / 1781

Hand:(1) not Soane - a surveyor ? (2) ? Robert Baldwin (fl.1762-c.1804) (3)  the unidentified office hand appears also on some of Dance's drawings for the City of London ? (4) Soane
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