Designs for a house and shop, 42 Fore Street, Devonport, Plymouth, for Mr Franklyn: elevation to Tavistock Street

NOTES: Thomas Franklyn, wine and spirit merchant, is listed in the 1839-1840 Robson's Devonshire Directory at 42 Fore Street and Tavistock Street so the building must have been completed by 1839. This design is one of a number of drawings bound into five volumes entitled 'Architectural works of George Wightwick', made between 1832 and 1850. Wightwick instructed his articled pupils to make this detailed set of retrospective drawings to illustrate every building of importance he had designed. The drawings were intended to serve both as a record of Wightwick's completed buildings and as a method of conveying to his students the design process from initial working design to finished structure.