Drawings for Thirkleby Park, North Yorkshire

Item author: James Wyatt
Item date: 1778 - 92
Grant Value: 3,250
Item cost: 3,250
Item date acquired: 1993
Item institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London

49 working drawings for the austere neoclassical mansion designed by Wyatt for Sir Thomas Frankland, which was demolished in 1927. Many of the drawings bear instructions to workmen about the domestic fittings such as flues, water closets, drainage, window shutters and library furniture. Illustrated at p.17 of AR

Item Provenance
Turned up at a northern auction described as a box containing papers and newscuttings