Designs for Eastwell Park, Eastwell, for George Finch Hatton Esq.: ground floor plan and north and south elevations

NOTES: The design for the entrance front of Eastwell House shows a porte-cochere supported by five Ionic columns mounted on a low plinth. This does not appear to have been executed and photographs of the house show the entrance in the form of a giant arch flanked by columns. The house was built on sloping ground and the garden front was raised upon a plinth with extraordinary link passages which led down to pavilions on either side containing offices and a greenhouse respectively. Bonomi's design was published by George Richardson in 'The New Vitruvius Britannicus' (London, 1802-1808), vol. I, pl. XXXIX-XLII, which gives a description of the house and its curious planning. This is the original drawing from which the engraved plan and entrance elevations are taken. This drawing was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1794 (no. 618).