Plan of the first floor of Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire
Soane Office
Category
Architecture / Drawings
Date
22 Dec 1791
Materials
Pen and ink with grey and blue wash
Measurements
525 x 750 mm
Place of origin
Great Scotland Yard
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206214
Summary
Soane Office, Plan of the first floor of Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, 1791, inscribed 'THE EARL OF HARDWICKE. WIMPLE'; 'PLAN OF THE ONE PAIR FLOOR'; 'Great Scotland Yard Decr. 22nd 1791'; all rooms are named and their dimensions given, pen and ink with grey and blue wash (525 x 750mm), scale given.
Full description
When raised, a paper flap shows the landing of the Great Stairs and the proposed first floor route (not executed) to the service stair that Soane built to the east, beyond the end wall of the seventeenth-century house. Note the proposed subdivision of the central north-south picture gallery; providing two dressing rooms and two small bedrooms. The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke's apartment at the west end of the house, with its dramatic bow room on the south side is shown here, fully planned. Catalogue entry adapted from David Adshead, Wimpole Architectural drawings and topographical views, The National Trust, 2007
Provenance
Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, KG, MP, FRS, FSA, (1757–1834); 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
Above plan: THE EARL OF HARDWICKE. / WIMPLE Below plan, above scale: PLAN OF THE ONE PAIR FLOOR Bottom right: Great Scotland Yard Decr. 22nd 1791
Makers and roles
Soane Office , architect Thomas Chawner (1774 - 1851), draughtsman Frederick Mayer (b.1775) [architect], draughtsman
References
Adshead 2007: David Adshead, Wimpole Architectural drawings and topographical views, The National Trust, 2007, p.78, no.128