Designs for alterations and additions to Boconnoc House, Cornwall: sketch diagram of neoclassical overmantel mirror to surmount the rococo chimneypiece in the drawing room

NOTES: Boconnoc was Thomas Pitt's ancestral seat which he inherited in 1760. The estate was purchased in 1717 by his grandfather and subsequently the Tudor house was remodelled in the Georgian style. Thomas Pitt did further work in the early 1770s to modernise the house.

NOTES: Boconnoc was Thomas Pitt's ancestral seat which he inherited in 1760. The estate was purchased in 1717 by his grandfather and subsequently the Tudor house was remodelled in the Georgian style. Thomas Pitt did further work in the early 1770s to modernise the house. This plan for a formal parterre for a courtyard at the north side of the house is in a late 17th century style, presumably designed to be contextual with the earlier date of the part of the house.

NOTES: This drawing, by an unidentified 18th century English architect, probably dates to the mid-18th century and may be a design by Thomas Pitt relating to his ancestral seat of Boconnoc in Cornwall which he inherited in 1760. This drawing was acquired alongside a set of six drawings by Pitt for Boconnoc (see RIBA94660-RIBA94666).