Sir William Proctor-Beauchamp, 1st Baronet (c.1722-1773) assumed the surname and arms of Proctor in compliance with the testamentary injunction of his maternal uncle, George Proctor of Langley Park,  Norfolk.  (Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 92nd ed., 1934). The Proctors had bought the Langley Park estate in 1739.  Sir Thomas inherited Langley Park from his father in 1773. 

Between September 1784 and August 1790 Soane made four separate designs for park buildings for Sir Thomas  Proctor-Beauchamp as well as sending a 'Plan of a Design for Bath' and a 'Plan & Section of a Design for new Roofing the Mansions house' (15 March 1788, 'Ledger A') and other drawings for alterations, none of which have survived. 

None of the variant designs for an entrance gateway (drawings 1-2) was accepted but a design for a gate with lodges in a simple Doric style (drawings 3-6) was carried out. Variant designs in a 'primitivist' style for a (hunting ?) lodge were not executed.  A design for another gate with twin lodges in a more conventional style was built and (with the Doric lodges) still survives.  The lodges were lived in up to about 1970 when in their empty state, they were stripped of their lead and vandalised but they have since been restored.

Literature.  P. du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.256-8;  D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect, 2nd ed., p.123; P.Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.171

4 Plan of half the foundations, Plan of half the Superstructure and two Section(s) for Sir Tho^s Beauchamp Proctor Bar^t

5 Entablature & Capital 1/3 the full size / Sir Tho^s Beauchamp Proctor Bar^t

6  Plan and elevation of gate with feint elevation of left-hand lodge, and detail of finials; verso, sketch details to ½ full size of Cast Iron palmette and stanchion

7 Plan and elevation of a lodge with a thatched pyramidal roof with revealed rafters and central, circular chimney, the segmental-headed door set within a blind, segmental arch with voussoirs.  A window on each of three sides is shown in the plan with, it is presumed, the arch motif repeated.

8 Perspective of a lodge close in design to No.7 except that the chimney is square and the elevations have a keystoned and rusticated semicircular, applied arch on each face.  This blind arch extending from the cornice to the ground and linked at the corners.   A door is shown on each of the two visible elevations. 

9 Plan of the Lodge, Elevation towards the Park and Elevation towards the Road with rough (Soane, pencil) detail of antefixa

10 Perspective from the road

11 Perspective from the road to a larger scale than drawing 10

12 Elevation to the road

13 Perspective from the road