Sir John Soane's Museum Drawings
As far as can be determined the design and working drawings are arranged chronologically. These are followed by the record drawings copied into volume 41 and are arranged by page number.  Closely related drawings are in the Victoria and Albert Museum (see below for reference).  

P. du Prey (John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp. 296-316) fully discusses Tendring Hall (the house but not the offices).  The commission had legal complications related to an entailed estate, a mentally handicapped heir, trustees and the need for a Private Member's Bill in the House of Lords.  A result of all this was a fixed price contract and a four-year building term with Soane appointed contractor as well as architect, a source of future problems with the trustees and the Rowley family (for contract see item 4).  

The largest of Soane's early jobs, Tendring Hall is a good example of his re-working of both earlier and current ideas.  His theoretical design for a casino (see Alternative designs, and record drawings, for a (hunting) casino, c.1780  cross reference needed) provided the bombé garden front for Letton Hall (November 1783 onwards) and Saxlingham (March-April 1784) as well as Tendring (January 1784).  Both Letton and Tendring have the central circulation axis of the hunting casino, and each have kitchen courts on a semicircular plan.  As du Prey points out (op.cit.p.299) 'Nothing was wasted with Soane'. See also P. Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, pp.25-6, for a discussion of house plans including that for Tendring. 

References on drawings to the re-use of details initially designed for one house to be used for another occur several times among the Tendring drawings.  In this early period, Earsham , Malvern Hall, Letton Hall, Saxlingham, Taverham Hall as also Tendring Hall, all have shared details in the way of entablatures, architraves, friezes, cornices, doors, chimney-pieces, grooves on pilasters and so on.  

Tendring Hall was originally built in the 1630s (an earlier date of 1560s is also quoted) (see drawing 1 for a part-survey plan dated 1783).  Soane re-sited the new Tendring on a ridge so as to take advantage of the views.  Additions were made post-Soane that eventually enlarged it to almost twice its original size with wings on either side. These additions seem to have begun as early as 10 June 1809 when an entry in Lady Susan Rowley's diary mentions 'the first brick laid wing Tendring Hall' and 'December 1811 Sir William Rowley completed the alterations' (quoted from notes by Dorothy Stroud, 1949, in SM green box files).  

Because of the lack of working drawings, there is a doubt as to whether the offices were built or not.  However, in Soane's Account Book (SM 'Journal No 2, pp.1-39) there is a summary of expenses from 1785 to 1788 addressed to the 'The Trustees of the late Wm Rowley Bart' which gives the accounts for all the building works until then, including the kitchen offices.  Not included are items 6 and 7 in the contract (park palings and cowhouse etc) Another account book, (SM  'Journal No 1) lists bills from 31 August 1785 to 25 March 1797 (sic, two small amounts paid to tradesmen in 1796 and 1797 'for work done in 1785').  Stables are mentioned in these accounts (see note to drawings 27-29).   Soane was paid in instalments from 7 August 1784 to 2 June 1792, a total of £10,887.12 against the sum of £12,050 provided for in the contract of July 1784.  Presumably a saving was made from the exclusion of the park palings and the cowhouse etc at a cost of £1,530 but there were a considerable number of extras. 

Soane's views on the necessity of a professional separation of architects from the building trade was probably inspired by or at least stimulated by the difficulties of being both architect and contractor for Tendring Hall.  In the end, owed for money paid out to the various builders, Soane sought advice from his lawyer Mr Norris of Lincolns Inn and Norris, George Dance and a Mr Johnson, as arbitrators, awarded the final sum of £992.13s.9d to Soane which he received on 2 June 1792.

Requisitioned for troops and prisoners of war for seven years during and after World War II the, by then, semi-derelict house was demolished in 1955.  Only a portico with its pair of coupled Ionic columns remains.  However, this is a later addition and is not Soane's Tuscan portico on a semicircular plan as shown on his drawings.   

Soane published the design for Tendring Hall in Plans, elevations and sections of buildings erected in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1788 (1789), plates XVIII-XXII. Plate 18 (principal storey plan and front elevation) relates, more or less, to drawing 5, plate 19 (basement plan and NS section) to drawings 3 and 14, plate 20 (chamber floor plan and EW section) to 6 and 14, plate 21 (stable court) to drawing 27, plate 22 (lodges) to drawings 8 and 30.  The kitchen court is not illustrated.      

See also Soane Museum green box files for photographs, newspaper cuttings and other material related  to Tendring Hall.

For 14 drawings for Tendring Hall including some key contract drawings see P. du Prey, Sir John Soane, 1985 in series of 'Catalogues of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum' (pp.54-56, catalogue 103-116).   There is a section in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries (Earle S32.19) that pre-dates the published EW section (plate 20) and corresponds (though without the cellar storey and inscribed dimensions) with the section at the V&A (du Prey, op.cit., cat.113 and plate 23).

Literature.  D. Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect, 2nd edition, 1996, p.124 and see above 

Purpose:Survey plan, 1783
Aspect:1 Part Ground floor Plan Of old Tendering Hall Suffolk with north point
Hand:

unidentified surveyor

 

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Purpose:Preliminary design for basement kitchen offices and courtyard laundry, bakehouse and brewery offices, January 1784 (2)

 

Aspect:2 The Plan for the Kitchen Court of Offices with part plan of basement floor

3 General plan of the Basement Story, of courtyard Offices &c

Hand:2-3 Robert Baldwin (fl.1762-c.1804)
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Purpose:Contract documents (6 pages), 7 July 1784    
Aspect:Specification, estimates and agreement

4a Cover sheet: Tendering Hall / The Plan of the intended new Mansion House / Offices & Garden wth the several Estimates / 1784 (verso) B. Added by Mr Stokes desire (see B. under Carpenter below)

4b The Particulars and Estimates of the several Works proposed in building and finishing a / new House and Offices for Rear Admiral Rowley at Tendring Hall in Suffolk, agreeable to the several / Plans and Elevations herewith annex'd.  / May 1784 /  To the Shell of the House.  //  (red pen) 1 (pen) Digger // To dig out and clear away the Earth for the whole of the Basement Story, & to make the Trenches for the / several Walls; to dig out for a dry Area, & for all the Drains, Cesspools &c & to fill in and / level the Ground.  // Bricklayer / To lay the foundations & to build all the external & internal Walls of (underlined in red pen) such thicknesses & heights as are shewn in the / several drawings; to build the Chimnies and to raise the Shafts sufficiently above the Roofing, & the Flues to be well / pargetted; to leave all the necessary openings & to turn such Arches & Counter Arches through the thicknesses of the several / Walls as shall be directed; to make all the Drains & Cesspools, & to build an Area to prevent the House from / being injured by the Wet & Damps.  All the Rooms in the Basement Story to be arched over & the Cellars to be / paved with bricks; the Partitions to be bricknoggined (or half-timbered, a brick partition strengthened by timbers placed horizontally about three feet apart between the studs).  The North, South, and East fronts of the House to be faced / with white ^ (red pen) A (pen) or Grey Bricks laid with a neat flat joint; all the other Walls to be built with bricks perfectly sound & well / burnt, and no Samel (salmonly, partly red bricks caused by admitting external air in the brick making process) or soft bricks to be used in any parts of these buildings; Gauged Arches to all the Windows.  //  Carpenter //  To frame (red pen)  B (red pen underlining) & provide (pen) the several Floors, Flatts (abbreviation for flat roof), Partitions, Roofs and Ashlaring with good sound Riga Timber (except where / necessary to use Oak) of good and sufficient Scantlings, properly trussed, braced and bolted together with Ironwork. / To lay in proper Bond timber, plates, Lintols, Tarsels (tassels, pads, brackets, plates), Wood bricks & discharging Pieces in the several Walls / and Bond in the noggined partitions as shall be directed; To make Centering for all the Groined & other Arches / Recesses & Apertures of every kind; to fix proper Bearers and Bridgings & to board the Gutters & Flatts; to make / the necessary Water troughs, and to form a Cistern over the Water Closets;To board the Roof for Slates, & to make / a Wainscot hipped Skylight for the back Staircase & to glaze the same.  // Mason // All the Chimney Caps, Cornices, Fascias, Plinths, Window Cills, Blocking Courses and other Stonework to be of the best / Portland Stone of the several forms & dimensions expressed in the drawings, & with such Bond Stones, Cramps & Joggles / as shall be found necessary.  The Doric Portico in the north front with its Columns, Entablature, Blocking course & Steps / to be also of Portland Stone worked in every respect according to the drawings; Portland Stone Steps from the center / Window in the East front to communicate with the Lawn; Stone Curbs to the Area Windows and to lay one course of / Purbec paving to three fronts of the House, to cut all the necessary holes for Iron bars, Cramps, Joggles, &c & to / run the same with Lead.

4c Plumber // To lay all the Gutters and Flattes with Lead of 7 lb to the foot; the Cistern to the Water Closet & all the Troughs to / be lined with Lead of the same thickness; all the Hips, Ridges, Flashings, Water tabling &c to be of Lead of 6 lb to the / foot; to provide and fix proper Rainwater pipes wherever necessary, to find Lead for running the Cramps & for every other / purpose required to complete these buildings; the dormer windows to be covered with Lead of 7lb to the foot & the Cheeks / with head of (red pen) A (pen) 6 lb to the foot.  // Smith // The Chimney bars, Bolts, Straps, Crampts & all the other Ironwork to be of the best tough Swedish Iron well temper'd / and hammered; Cast Iron Guards to the Area Windows of the Basement Story; plain Iron bars & handrail to the Steps / from the window in the East front; An Iron Skylight circular on the plan to the best Staircase ; glazed with the best Glass.  // Slater // To cover the whole of the outside Roofing with the best Westmoreland Slates, & the Roofs next the Gutters with larger / Welch Slates, the heads of the Nails to be either of Copper or well painted.  //  The Particulars of the Finishings // Attic Story // The Garrets to be floored with yellow deal, skirted, plaistered & whitewashed; the doors & Windows to be finished plain & useful / with proper Locks and Hinges & part of the Ashlering to be formed with Closets; Portland Chimney pieces and Firestone Hearth / to the same Chimneys.  All the Wood & Ironwork to be painted thrice in Oil.  // Bedchamber Story // All the Bedchambers to have deal dowelled floors (added in pencil) The floors are only strait joint edged nailed floors; (pen) deal cased frames, (another pencil insertion) 2 the Pulley Pieces Mahogany taken from Sir Joshua Rowley / the Glass in general cut so near so as to show the Knobs (pen) & Wainscot Sashes glazed withe the best Ratcliffe / Crown Glass; deal framed Window Shutters in two heights with Backs, Elbows, and Soffites to all the Windows, deal doors / with Locks, Hinges & other fastenings; Jamb Linings framed to correspond with the doors & Shutters; Dado in all the Rooms / excepting those in the West Front which are to be finished with a Torus skirting; the Chimney pieces to be part of Marble & / part of Wood & of about £15 (pencil) 20 [£] (pen) value each; the Closets to be fitted up with Shelves, Drawers &c.  Enriched plaister Cornices / to all the Bedrooms, floated Lath & plaister Cielings, & the Walls plaistered for paper; plain Cornices to the Lobbies & the / Walls stuccoed to a Skirting.  A Water Closet to be fixed on this floor adjoining the back Staircase, & all the Woodwork / to be flatted dead White.  //  Mezzanine Story  //  To be finished in a plain and useful manner with deal Floors, Wainscot Sashes, deal cased frames, Shutters, doors & / Torus Skirting; plaister Cornices, floated lath & plaister Cielings, and the Walls prepared for papering; all the Woodwork / painted thrice in Oil.  //  Hall Story  //  Deal dowelled Floors to all the Rooms, excepting the Hall (which is to be paved with Portland Stone); deal cased frames, mahogany pulley pieces &c  //

4d  3. with Mahogany Sashes glazed with the best Ratcliffe Crown Glass to all the Windows in this Story, deal framed Shutters with small moldings on / the Pannels hung in two heights, Backs, Elbows and Soffites, Deal doors, & Jamb Linings framed to correspond with the Shutters, with proper / Mortice, Locks, Hinges and other Fastenings; Deal Dado with neat plain base & surbase Moldings to all the Rooms; framed Grounds for / hangings in the Drawing Room, & all the Walls battered.  The Chimney pieces of the Drawing Room, Library & Eating Parlor to be / of Marble; the other Chimney pieces to be of Wood & Marble.  Stucco Entablatures to the principal Rooms & neat enriched Stucco / Cornices to the other Rooms; an enriched Plaster Cieling to the Drawing Room, and floated Lath & plaister Cielings in the other Apartments. / The walls of the Hall, Eating Parlor, and Library to be stuccoed, & the Walls of the other Rooms to be plaistered for paper; small enriched / Stucco frames on the Walls of the Eating Parlor; the Cieling of the Portico to be floated & a small plaister Cornice.  All the Woodwork / to be painted dead white, & the Walls of the Hall, Eating Parlor & Library of such Colors as shall be directed. // Great Staircase (one Story) only. The Floor, Steps and Landings (pencil) 2d floor Landing one only of Portland paving 1½ / ---- (illegible) on Wood bearers (pen) to be of Portland Stone, enriched (pencil) not enriched (pen) Ironwork with neat molded / Mahogany Handrail on the Steps & Landings & in several arched opeings; the walls to be stuccoed & finished to a Skirting; a neat / Modiglion (Modillion) Cornice under the Skylights, an enriched Cornice round the Skylight & under the paved Landing & Stucco fascia on the level of the / Bedchamber floor, the Cielings to be floated & the Niches finished plain, the Columns & Pilasters to be of deal, Dado on the Landing / of the Bedchamber Story & raking torus Skirting on the Steps &c.  Angle beads to all the openings.  The Soffites of the Steps & Landings / to be whited; the Wood & Ironworks to be finished dead white & the Walls painted of the same Color as the Hall.  /  Back Staircase.  All the Steps, Landings & Quarter spaces ^ (pencil) The Upper Landings only.  Paving on / Wood Bearers  (pen) to be of Purbeck Stone with plain Iron bars & molded Handrail, the / Walls to be stuccoed to a Skirting, a small Cornice under the Sky light & the whole painted  //  Basement Story / The Housekeepers Room and Store Closet to be floored with yellow deal in Oak Ground Joists, the rest of the Rooms, and passages to be / paved with Purbec (sic) ^ or Yorkshire Stone, the doors and Windows to be finished in a plain manner with proper Hinges, Locks, Bolts and other fastenings / the Groined Arches to be rendered & the Walls finished to a Skirting; Portland Chimney pieces to all the Chimnies, & the whole well / painted. /  All the outside Wood & Ironwork to be properly painted. // (red pen) No 2 (pen) Kitchen Court & Offices / To build the Offices adjoining the House, consisting of a passage from the House to the Kitchen, a Scullery, Larders, Meal Room, & Bakehouse / with a deal Staircase leading to Bedrooms over them; to form the Kitchen Court & to build the Landry (sic), Washouse, Brewhouse & Sheds & to / completely finish the same in a plain & useful manner; the Areas between the House & Offices to be paved with Purbec Stone, & the Office / Court paved with pebbles; or Rag Stones.  //  (red pen) No 3 (pen) Stable buildings &c consisting of 3 Coachouses, Granarys & Lodging rooms over them, & Standings for twenty two / Horses, Saddle Rooms, an Open Stable, Dungholes & other necessary offices.  //  Bricklayer.  To dig out the Foundations for the several Walls of the Coachouses & Stables & to build the same agreeable to the Drawings

4e to make the necessary Drains in and from the several Stables &c and to dig & steen (line) proper Cesspools; to cover the whole of the Roofing with /  Welch Slates, to build the Walls of the Saddle & Harness Rooms & all the fence Walls, to pave the Stable with English Clinkers & the Court with / Pebbles to sink and steen the Dungholes. //  Carpenter &c.  To frame ^ & provide the whole of the Roofing and the several Floors of good & sufficient Timbers properly trussed & secured with Ironwork, to / lay in such Bond timber, Templets, and Discharging Pieces as may be deemed necessary, & to make the Centering for all the Apertures & Recesses / The Corn chamber over the Coachouses to be floored & fitted up & Lodging Rooms for the Coachemen & Grooms; the Doors of the Coachouses to be framed / of deal well braced & hung to proper Hook Stones, with strong fastenings; Haylofts over the Stables A.A. with rough deal floors, fir doors & Oak / doorcases to the Stables, Saddle Rooms &c. solid Frames glazed with Lead work & Iron Casements to all the Windows, and proper Locks, Bolts & / Fastenings; & the Stables to be completely finished with Partitions, Racks & Mangers; To build the Piers into the Court & to finish them / with Stone, to make & hang large folding Gates to enclose the Court; deal doors in Oak frames from the Stable Court into the Garden.  The Hips / Ridges & Vallies of these buildings to be covered with Lead of 5 lb to the foot, the Cielings of the Stables, Coachouses  & Grooms & Coachmens Rooms / to be plaistered & skirted & to be in every respect finished in a plain & useful manner; To paint the whole of the Wood & Ironworks inside & / outside wherever needful.  // (red pen)  4 (pen) Kitchen Garden  // To build the Piers & Walls of the Kitchen Garden 360 feet in length by 180 feet in breadth containing within the Walls about One / Acre & an half (red pen)  2 whereas the old Garden containing nearly seven Acres   of a proper height & of the thickness shewn in the Drawings, to provide & fix proper Hook Stones & to frame & hang / deal doors with Locks & Hinges to the same.  The Walls to be coped.  To build & completely finish a Hothouse forty five feet in / Length & of a sufficient Breadth with Sheds for the Fire places Garden Tools &c  //  (red pen) No 5  (pen) Lodges  //  To dig out the foundations & build the Walls of the Rooms agreeable to the Drawings & to slate the Roof, to frame good & sufficient / Roofing & Cieling floors; deal Floors on Oak Ground Joists, deal frames & Wainscot Sashes, deal doors, Locks, Hinges & other fastenings / To plaister the Cielings & the Walls to be stuccoed to a Skirting.  To build the Piers with Stone & to repair & Hang the old Iron / Gates.  The whole of the Wood & Ironwork to be well painted. //  (red pen) No 6 (pen) Park Paling  // To remove the present old Paling & to grub up the old Roots of the decayed Trees, to dig holes for the new posts at Proper / distances & to provide & frame good & sufficient Oak posts & Rails, & sound Oak Pails five to six feet high alternately, well / nailed & secured; & to make good & to drop the Banks in a workmanlike Manner; to burn the Ends of the Posts as far / as they go into the Ground.  // (red pen) No 7 (pen) Cowhouse &c  //  To build Sheds for Eight Cows, & Pens for Calves, a Stable for six Carthorses, & Shed for Waggons & Cart, Hogstyes, Chicken / Coops, Sheep pens, & a good & substantial Barn

4f 1 Estimate for building & completely finishing the dwelling House in a good & substantial manner, agreeable to / the several drawings, & Particulars, including the Value  & use of the old Materials / to be used in the same, amounts to the sum of --- £6798  /  2 ... for the Kitchen Court and Offices --- 1148  /  3 ... for the Stable Buildings --- 1665  /  4 ... for the Kitchen Garden, Hothouse &c --- 659  /  5 ... for the Lodges --- 250  /  6 ... for the Park Paling --- 1130  /  7 ... for the Cowhouse, Carthorse Stables, Carthouse, Barn &c --- 400  /  Total Amount ... £12,050 //  (in another hand) It is this this (sic) Seventh day of July 1784 agreed Between John Sherwin and Daniel Gregory Esqre Trustees and Executors of the Will of  / the late Sir William Rowley Knight deceased and John Soane of Margaret Street in the County of Middlesex Architect, Admiral Joshua Rowley and / William Rowley Esqre his Eldest Son who are both Tenants for Life in succession of the late Sir Wm Rowleys Estate as follows ~ / The said John Soane in Consideration of the  Sum of Twelve Thousand and fifty pounds and of having the Materials to arise from the old ~ / House and Offices mentioned in the foregoing particulars and Estimates doth hereby Contract and agree with the said John Sherwin and Danl Gregory / that in case the Bill now depending in Parliament for building a new Mansions house and Offices shall pass into a Law he the said John Soane ~  / shall and and will within Four Years from the date hereof erect and build or cause and procure to be erected and built compleated and finished in / a good   substantial and workmanlike manner and with good and sound materials of all sorts a new Mansion house Offices Coachouses Barn Stables and / other Buildings and plant the park pailings according to the plan particulars and Estimate referred to by the Estimate above described and in consideration / thereof the Said John Sherwin and Daniel Gregory do hereby agree in case the said Bill shall pass into a Law to pay the Said Sum of Twelve Thousand and Fifty Pounds / in manner prescribed by the Said Bill and as the progress of the Buildings may require.  And the said Joshua Rowley and William Rowley do / hereby   agree to and with the said John Sherwin and Daniel Gregory that in case the said Buildings above described to be erected and built for the    /     Twelve Thousand and Fifty Pounds shall not accordingly the erected and built completed and finished for that Sum then that they the said Josh / Joshua Rowley and William Rowley shall and will at their own Expence and Costs cause the said Buildings to be completed and finished agreeable to / the said Plan particuarls and Estimates within the time above mentioned for erecting and building completing and finishing the same as Witness / the Hands of the said John Sherwin Daniel Gregory John Soane Joshua Rowley and Willm Rowley the day and year above mentioned ~  //  Witness / J. Stokes / Witness as to the Signing / by Daniel Gregory /  Tho. Bingley  (and)  J. Soane Archt / Josa Rowley / Willm Rowley / John Sherwin / Daniel Gregory

Hand:(4a-e) Robert Baldwin (fl.1762-c.1804) , (4f Baldwin/ lawyer's hand)
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Purpose:First contract drawings, May 1784  (5)
Aspect:Plan of the Principal Story of Tendring Hall Suffolk, The Elevation of the North Front and The Elevation of the South Front

The Plan of the Basement Story & Offices, plans of The Mezzanine Story and Bedchamber Story

7 Plan and four elevations for Design for the Stables Coachouses &c at Tendering Hall, Suffolk

8 Plan and elevation for Lodges at Tendering Hall

9 Plan of walled Kitchen Garden / containing about 1½ Acres / within the Walls

Hand:5-9  Robert Baldwin (fl.1762-c.1804)
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Purpose:Revised contract for the attic floor, December 1784

 

Aspect:10 Plan of the Attics and Rooms in the Roof / No.2
Hand:Robert Baldwin (fl. 1762-c.1804)
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Purpose:Working drawings for the ground floor and for the drawing room, October 1784 (2)
Aspect:

11 Plan with revisions for The principal Story of Tendring Hall, Suffolk including plan of drawing room ceiling

12 Plan and wall elevations and detail of Base & Surbase Moldings for the Drawing Room

Hand:(11) Robert Baldwin (fl.1762-c.1804) with ceiling design and amended staircase and notes added by Soane (12) Soane with two inscriptions by Baldwin
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Purpose:Working drawings for the timberwork, July 1785 (3)
Aspect:

13 Plan with Framing to the Chamber floor of Tendring Hall

14 Section from A to B with details of roof trusses added and Section from C to D, pencil detail by builder

15 Three sections through the garret floor

Hand:(13) Soane (14) Robert Baldwin (fl. 1762-1804) with Soane notes and revisions (15) Robert Baldwin - 14-15 pencil notes by builder
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Purpose:Working drawings for south and east elevations (2)
Aspect:

16 (Baldwin) Tendring Hall. South Front to the Lawn and (verso) full size detail of cornice and blocking course

17 (Baldwin) Tendring Hall. East Front to the Offices and (verso) full size detail of bell-flower (or husk) festoon and mantel shelf of chimney-piece (see drawing 54 for reduced copy)

Hand:

(16 recto) John Sanders (pupil, 1 September 1784-90), (16 verso) Soane  (17 recto) Sanders (17 verso) Soane

 

 

 

 

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Purpose:Working drawings of the four elevations (4)
Aspect:

18 Elevation of the North Front of Tendring Hall, Suffolk

19 Elevation of the South Front of Tendring Hall 

20 Elevation of the East Front of Tendring Hall 

21 Elevation of the West Front of Tendring Hall 

 

 

 

Hand:18-21 John Sanders (pupil, 1 September 1784-90) 
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Purpose:

Design for house and offices, November 1785

Aspect:22 Block plan of ground floor of house, kitchen and stable offices, and elevation of principal front with amendments to the stable offices
Hand:Soane
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Purpose:Variant 'first Design', preliminary design, working drawing and builder's drawing for kitchen offices, 1785 (4)
Aspect:

23 Plan and four elevations

24 Plan, elevations and details inscribed (Sanders) Sketch of design for Offices and (feint pencil, verso) incomplete plan for offices

25 Plan, elevations and details inscribed (verso) Working Drawings

26 Plan, elevation and section and (verso) side elevation

 

Hand:

(23) Baldwin ?  (24) Soane (25) neither Soane nor Baldwin see note below (26) builder, William Lodder?  

 

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Purpose:

Alternative designs for the stables, January 1785 - c. November 1785 (3)

Aspect:

27 General plan, elevation of the Entrance front of the Stable Buildings at Tendring Hall and side elevation

28 Perspective of an alternative design

29 Incomplete plan and elevations inscribed (Sanders) Sketch of design for the stable Offices, Tendring Hall

 

Hand:(27-28) Robert Baldwin (fl. 1762-c.1804) (29) Soane
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Purpose:Working drawing for lodges, January 1785 and record copy of details of lodge (2)
Aspect:

30 The Plan / of the Kitchen Garden, The Plan of the Lodges and The Elevation of the Lodges

31 Record copy of details of Cornice for Lodges

Hand:(30) Robert Baldwin (fl.1762-c.1804)/ Soane pencil additions (31) John McDonnell (pupil, 18 March 1786-91)
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Purpose:Unfinished presentation design for kitchen garden and surrounding landscape, with pinery designed by Robert Baldwin, c.1784
Aspect:

32 (pencil) A Plan for an elegant / Fruit & Kitchen Garden with a design / of a Vinery (sic, in fact a pinery) for the Honble Adm.l Rowley / at his Seat Tendering (sic) Hall Suffolk

 

 

Hand:Robert Baldwin (fl. 1762-c.1804)
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Purpose:Working drawings for a hot house and a greenhouse, June and September 1789 (2)
Aspect:

33 Plan, Elevation and Section of Hot house and Shed

34 Plan of Greenhouse, Section of Greenhouse and Elevation of the Front to the Lawn

Hand:33-34  John Sanders (pupil, 1 September 1784-90)
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Purpose:

Record copy of original specification, estimates and contract of July 1784 (9 pages)

Aspect:

35 Specification, estimates and contract (as item 4 (q.v.), the specification partly re-used for Bentley Priory Midd[lesex]

 

Hand:John Sanders (pupil, 1 September 1784-90)
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Purpose:Record copies of first contract drawings dated May 1784 (6)
Aspect:

36 Reduced copy of drawing 5 - Plan of the Principal Story of Tendering Hall, Suffolk and elevations of north and south fronts

37 Reduced copy of drawing 6 - The Plan of the Basement Story and Offices

38  Reduced copy of drawing 6 - plans of The Mezzanine Story and The Bedchamber Story

39 Reduced copy of drawing 7 - Design for the Stables, Coachouses &c at Tendering Hall, Suffolk

40 Reduced copy of drawing 8 - Lodges at Tendering Hall

41 Reduced copy of drawing 9 - Kitchen Garden

Hand:36-41 John Sanders (pupil, 1 September 1784-90)
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Purpose:Record copies of miscellaneous drawings (3)
Aspect:

42 Details of Blocking Course and Cornice / for Tendring Hall relating to drawing 16 verso (a rough full size detail attributed to Soane)

43 Plan of the Stable Buildings relating to drawing 27 but unfinished (for example, no windows) and with slightly different dimensions

44 Plan and elevations for lodges relating to drawing 8 but with capped gate piers instead of ironwork finials

Hand:(42-44) John Sanders (pupil, 1 September 1784-90)
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Purpose:

Record copies of designs for details of entablatures, cornices, architraves and other mouldings including those for the hall, drawing room, library and Mr Rowleys room - for which the original drawings have mostly not survived (6)  

Aspect:

45 Entablature to the doors of Hall

46 Cornice for Hall

47 Base & Surbase Moldings / to the Drawing Room

48 Entablature for the Drawing Room

49 Entablature for Library with detail of frieze labelled Begin in each Angle / w[it]h a whole head (of bucranium), Entablature to doors of Library labelled Cornice & Frieze of Stucco, the same  Architrave to the Windows, and Base & Surbase mold[in]g / to Library the same / as Mr Lewis Asst-- (illegible) / Drawing Room, Entablature to doors of Mr Rowleys dressing Room labelled Cornice & Frieze of Stucco, Line of Frieze and This Architrave to the Windows, Cornice to all the Chambers / on the first floor / to all the Chambers on the / Mezzanine Story / to all the Chambers on the Young Ladies Apartmt, Base & Surbase Moldgs / to Mr Rowleys dressg Room, Mr Rowleys dressing Room / Entablature the same as Mr Branthwayts Eating Room

50 Admirals Room / The same Cornice as / in the Chamber Story / with this Frame on / the Cieling, Cornice to the Small / Rooms in West Front / Hall floor / Mezzanine & / Chamber Story, Architrave to doors & Windows to the / Admirals Room - Chamber in N.W. / Corner & the two dressing Rooms between, Architrave to doors & Windows / of the Mezzanine & Chamber / Storys, Base & Surbase Moldings to the same / Rooms as the above Architrave and Base Moldings - Mezzanine Story

Hand:45-50 John Sanders (pupil, 1 September 1784-90)
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Purpose:

Record copies of designs for capitals for the first floor, ceiling for the drawing room, and for four types of chimney-piece - for which the original drawings have mostly not survived (5)

 

 

Aspect:

51 Capital to Columns and pilasters of Bed Chamber Floor

52 Ceiling for the Withdrawing Room

53 Elevations for four chimney-pieces, A, B, C, D

54 Detail of chimney-piece D (reduced copy of drawing 17)

55 Moldings at ¼ the size for Chimney piece C and Moldings at ¼ the size for Chimney piece A

Hand:(51) John Sanders (pupil 1 September 1784-90) (52-55) John McDonnell (pupil 18 March 1786-1791)
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