| Description | Soho Foundry. (15 items).
1455. Soho Foundry - Workers' Houses. 1795, Mar. 1796, Aug. 1801, 1808-1809, May 1817, 1883. 15 items.
Floor plans and external elevations of workers' houses.
1795-1796:
Ground and chamber plan of the houses - orignal and reverse drawings, not dated [1795 designs? - these show a different design to the Mar. 1796 plans].
Ground and chamber plan of the houses - coloured original and reverse drawings, Mar. 1796.
Front and back elevations of the row, not dated [marked "Foundry Row" in the top right corner].
Second Row of Houses, 1801:
Elevation and plans of the row, marked "copied from Mr. Smith's drawing, 20 Aug. 1801].
End Houses added to the Second Row, 1808-1809:
Elevation and plans of the row, not dated.
Plans and elevations of proposed designs for the end houses - 5 sheets of drawings, all untitled and undated.
Alteration of No. 13, 1817:
"Plan of House No. 13, Soho Foundry, 1 May 1817", marked on the back "Plan for alteration of the House No. 13 inhabited by Mr. Murdock at Soho Foundry, 1817".
Blueprints:
Ground and chamber plan of the 1796 row - blueprint copy of a 1796 drawing made in 1883.
Front and back elevations of the first row - blueprint drawing, not dated.
Drawings of the workers' houses at Soho Foundry. The first row, of eight two-storey cottages flanked at each end by a pair of three-storey houses, was first planned in 1795, but building did not begin until Mar. 1796, when new designs were drawn up. The second row, consisting of eight two-storey cottages, was begun in Aug.1801 and finished in Feb. 1802. The builder was James Smith. In 1808-1809 two larger houses were added to each end of this row. It was in one of these, No. 13, at the west end of the row, that William Murdock was living in 1817. |