325 Whapload Road, Lowestoft
The righthand end of the finished drawing an isometric projection cutaway drawing, at 1:100 scale. This shows the part if the building added shortly after the smoking chamber was built, around 1700. Sime time late fit was raised in height, by about 60 centimetres, so an extra floor could be inserted in the loft. This part of the building has its gable to the road which runs along the western edge of the Denes, an expanse of sand dunes which has become covered in vegetation. The range consists of three floors. The loft floor was used for the inspection of drift nets and their repair, the work undertaken by women and girls. This was lit by skylights in the roof and floor-level windows, the nets usually being pulled onto the loft via the doorway on the gable. Trap doors in the floor allowed nets to be passed to the floor in the middle for storage. On the ground floor fish were prepared for smoking. The first part of the process was to place the fish in mounds which were then salted. After a period of a day or two they were rinsed in cold water and put into skewers for the smoke kiln. The main references for this part of the drawing were architects drawings and numerous interior photographs of similar buildings in use, supplied by my client and then interpreted through sketches. The latter can be seen in the album dedicated to the Lowestoft project on my photostream.
325 Whapload Road, Lowestoft
The righthand end of the finished drawing an isometric projection cutaway drawing, at 1:100 scale. This shows the part if the building added shortly after the smoking chamber was built, around 1700. Sime time late fit was raised in height, by about 60 centimetres, so an extra floor could be inserted in the loft. This part of the building has its gable to the road which runs along the western edge of the Denes, an expanse of sand dunes which has become covered in vegetation. The range consists of three floors. The loft floor was used for the inspection of drift nets and their repair, the work undertaken by women and girls. This was lit by skylights in the roof and floor-level windows, the nets usually being pulled onto the loft via the doorway on the gable. Trap doors in the floor allowed nets to be passed to the floor in the middle for storage. On the ground floor fish were prepared for smoking. The first part of the process was to place the fish in mounds which were then salted. After a period of a day or two they were rinsed in cold water and put into skewers for the smoke kiln. The main references for this part of the drawing were architects drawings and numerous interior photographs of similar buildings in use, supplied by my client and then interpreted through sketches. The latter can be seen in the album dedicated to the Lowestoft project on my photostream.