Survey Plan of the first floor of Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, with flap
Henry Flitcroft (1697 - 1769)
Category
Architecture / Drawings
Date
circa 1742
Materials
Pen and ink with pencil additions
Measurements
237 x 379 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206208
Summary
Henry Flitcroft (Twiss Green, Cheshire 1697 – Hampstead 1769). Survey Plan of the first floor of Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, with flap, c.1742, inscribed 'The Plan of the One Pair of Stairs Floor', pen and ink with pencil additions (237 x 379 mm), scale given.
Full description
Again, it is essentially only the area of the secondary staircase at the west end of the mid-seventeenth-century house that Flitcroft proposes to alter here. The plan shows how the central cross-gallery was to terminate in the new canted bay of the garden façade. Catalogue entry adapted from David Adshead, Wimpole Architectural drawings and topographical views, The National Trust, 2007.
Provenance
Sir Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor, PC, FRS, (1690-1764); bequeathed by Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 – 1976), daughter of Rudyard Kipling, to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3000 acres.
Marks and inscriptions
Below scale: The Plan of the One Pair of Stairs Floor
Makers and roles
Henry Flitcroft (1697 - 1769) , architect
References
Adshead 2007: David Adshead, Wimpole Architectural drawings and topographical views, The National Trust, 2007, p.42, no. 51