Design for a conservatory at Tehidy Park, Tehidy, for the Baroness Basset: ground floor plan, elevation of the south front, section and details

NOTES: Frances, 2nd Baroness Basset, inherited following the death of her father in 1835 so this design probably dates from the second half of the 1830s. The house was demolished in 1919. 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.