Plans and notes for a gentleman's house
Rooms labelled - master's hall, kitchen, stable, guest rooms - with notes on their arrangement
The verso works out the plan of a substantial residence, its rooms labelled: master's main hall, father's chamber, kitchen, family hall, servants' chamber, court, stable, guest rooms and pantry. Marginal notes reason about the arrangement, arguing that the family hall should lie beyond the kitchen so the master hears no noise, that food should pass through wide low windows or turntables, and that a single door should close the whole house. Columns of arithmetic, written with the sheet inverted, fill the remaining space.
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Master's apartments and service rooms
One plan names the master's main hall, the father's chamber, the kitchen, the family hall, the servants' chamber, a small courtyard and the firewood store. A related plan adds a scullery ('office of bowls') and three rooms for guests.
Court and stable with colonnade
A central plan drawn with a colonnade is labelled Court and Stable. It sits between the domestic plans on the sheet.
Lettered plan with a room key
A colonnaded plan is keyed by letters: a the master's hall, d chamber, b kitchen, c pantry, n guard-chamber and o the family hall.
How the rooms should be arranged
The pantry, firewood, henhouse, kitchen, hall and chamber should be adjacent for convenience, and stable, manure and garden together. The kitchen should sit between the master's and the family's halls, food passing through wide low windows or turntables, and a single door should close the whole house.
Calculations on the inverted sheet
With the sheet turned upside down, columns of multiplication and addition work numbers such as 1856, 18560, 16936 and 22272.