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Collapse D2375 - Harpur Crewe family of Calke Abbey - [12th-20th cent]D2375 - Harpur Crewe family of Calke Abbey - [12th-20th cent]
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Expand M - Maps and plansM - Maps and plans
Collapse P - Estate fabric, property and building records, including architectural drawingsP - Estate fabric, property and building records, including architectural drawings
Collapse 1 - Records related to the buildings of Calke Abbey and its immediate environs1 - Records related to the buildings of Calke Abbey and its immediate environs
1 - Book containing plan of intended attic story, plan and section of intended roof showing the timber, elevation to south with addition of attic story, plan of alteration for a dining room, estimates, memorandum of work to be done, etc, by Thomas Gardner, architect, for the seat of Sir Henry Harpur - late 18th cent
2 - Plan of basement in time of Sir George Crewe - early 19th cent
3 - Drawing of plan of study - [1809]
4 - Notes [of Sir Henry Crewe] on design of study - [1809]
5 - Drawing of plan showing study, water closet and drawing room - [1809]
6 - Design for iron railing - 19th cent
7 - Plans for iron fencing from West Bromwich - 19th cent
8 - Drawings of door, fireplace with mirror over and draped windows - 19th cent
9 - Alternative design, West elevation showing proposed alteration [including proposed lantern light] - [c.1866]
10 - One pair, basement and principal floor plans, for Sir George Crewe, October [torn] - 1841
11 - Design for a portico to the south elevation, W Wilkins - 1794
12 - Design for a portico for Calke House - early 19th cent
13 - Plans for proposed alterations to Basement, Principal Storey [and Second Storey] for Sir George Crewe by Henry I. Stevens, architect - Sep 1841
14 - Incomplete plans of ground floor - 19th cent
15 - Plans of suggested alterations for Sir J Crewe - 1866
16 - Plan of kitchen showing proposed alteration for John H Crewe (with Sir George Crewe's name crossed through) - 1866
17 - Plan to show how the old spring water may be "thrown up" to supply Calke Abbey, with sketch and section of fish ponds - 1809
18 - Field plan of Calke water supply, 1890 showing cisterns, position of taps, etc - 1890
19 - Plans of ground, principal and chamber stories for Sir J Harpur Crewe - mid 19th cent
20 - One pair plan for Sir George Crewe with later pencilled amendments, Oct - 1841
21 - Coloured drawing of fireplace and mirror over it - 19th cent
22 - Sketch plan of the chimneys as "pointed out" [i.e. identifying rooms served by the chimneys] by George Gee and T.W. Smalley on 16 May 1889 - 31 Oct 1895
23 - Outline ground plan - 1863
24 - Transverse section of principal staircase with proposed turret light, by H.M.B. [Henry M. Burton] - Feb 1867
25 - Tracing of transverse section of principal staircase with proposed turret light, by H.M.B. [Henry M. Burton] - Feb 1867
26 - Longitudinal section of principal staircase with proposed turret light, also with proposed site of iron tanks in passage adjoining, by H.M.B. [Henry M. Burton] - Mar 1866
27 - Ground plan for Calke Church, with details of burial for members of the Harpur and Crewe families - early 20th cent
28 - Plan described on envelope as design for a chamber or Gothic room for Sir Henry Harpur probably for Repton Park - 1810
29 - Elevations (2) of an unidentified house [believed to be Burnaston House] - c.1822
30 - Double page marked CALKE ABBEY SKETCHES & C, otherwise blank - 19th cent
31 - Book of designs for a house for Sir Henry Harpur at Calke (attributed to Joseph Pickford of Derby] - [1760]
32 - Design for iron railings - late 18th cent
33 - Design for a library at Calke - late 19th cent
34 - Side elevation for unknown church [?Calke] - 19th cent
35 - Transverse section of proposed new servants' stairs - [c.1867]
36 - Plan of principal floor of Calke Abbey, for Sir George Crewe [by Henry I. Stevens, architect] - [c.1841]
37 - Plan of second floor of Calke Abbey, for Sir George Crewe [by Henry I. Stevens, architect] - [c.1841]
38 - Ground plan of stables, dairies, flower garden, cowsheds, fold yards and other outbuildings for proposed alterations to Calke Dairy - late 19th cent
39 - Letter from George Bridgart to Sir George Crewe reporting on condition of Calke Abbey and suggesting repairs and alterations - 15 Apr 1841
40 - Ground plan of farm buildings for Calke Dairy - late 19th cent
41 - Assorted estimates for repair at Calke Abbey - 1932-1937
42 - Papers on the New Lodge on the Melbourne Road entrance to Calke Abbey - 1926-1936
43 - Tender of Walter Bates of Melbourne to paint the outside and doors of the Dairy House at Calke - 14 May 1875
44 - Estimate by George Bridgart for repairs at Calke Flour mill - 12 Apr 1860
45 - Wrapping paper endorsed "Sundry Valuations and Surveys of Estates in the Counties of Derby, Leicester and Stafford, commencing in ... 1632 also a ground plan and elevation of a house intended to have been built at Calke". - 1632
46 - Letters, specifications, bills, etc, concerning buildings and their maintenance, repair alteration - 1743-1969
47 - Volume entitled "Outlay 1848" recording construction cost of various buildings and materials for ? estate tenants or clients, with alphabetical index - 1848
48 - Estimate of expense of bringing up the old spring water into the reservoir near the coal yard - [c.1809]
49-50 - Calke Abbey, Derby: details of turret light over principal staircase - 19th cent
51-52 - Calke Abbey, Derby: plastering details of turret light over principal staircase - 19th cent
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