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Dining Room
The door from the Dining Room G4 to the Hall G3.
A Brief History
1740s - Assumed door connecting Dining Room to Entrance Hall (door opening is clearly blocked up behind G3/D3).
By 1819 - blocked doorway, backed with sideboard in dining room set against flat wall.
1828 (signed copy of contract drawing) shallow-arched sideboard recess illustrated at both ends of dining room cut into the existing walls and extended by a 9" projection to form a sideboard bay at each end of the room. Assumed to be finished in plaster cornice and skirting carrying around the bay, chair rail stopping either side against the supporting pilasters.
1848 - Illustrated as closed sideboard recess either end of dining room.
Mid 19th Century section - Flitcroft modillon cornice illustrated in dining room.
Early 20th Century - dining room lined with timber panelling and sideboard recess dressed accordingly.
Mahogany doorleaf G3/d3 assumed to be introduction by Cowtan (unfinished on rear face.) (Flitcroft doors are painted and not enriched, as at G2/d2).
1819 illustrated as open.
By 1942 windows blocked up. Externally: 17th Century window frames blocked with ashlar; internally: oak linings appear 20th Century and show line of original arrangement.
What's to do
Remove sideboard in north alcove and take out central panel of wainscot.
Remove doorleaf G3/d3 (single-faced door) and set aside for resuse.
Open up blocked doorway between G3/d3 and Dining Room.
Fit new doorframe and lining at G3/d3-G4/d3.
Fit double-faced mahogany doorleaf (from G14/d2) at G3/d2.
Fit new door, architrave and entablature to match G4/d2 as new door G4/03.
Make good panelling extending dado to areas presently concealed by sideboard.
The reopening of the doorway recovers the early relationship between the entrance and the dining
room (the original Hall), and regains the alignment of rooms through the west range. It also allows a more direct connection between the Entrance Hall G3 and the Dining Room G4 which is used for events.
External - see Alterations to North elevation.
Internally: remove section of panelling that extends over window apertures and reform with oak linings and soffit extended back to exposed stone window frame. Adapt stallboard and provide oak cill.
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