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Survey of London
… of his first acts was to issue a proclamation concerning new buildings in the metropolis. In the main, this … issued latterly by James I, although it also contained new regulations for the better manufacture of bricks. It reiterated the prohibition on the building of new houses except on old foundations, and when such new …
Survey of London
… money by fining occupiers and owners of houses built, on new foundations and having less than four acres of ground, … rights in 1670. Perhaps by the Earl's contrivance the new parish boundary excluded nearly all the outer parts of … Hart and the ancillary buildings were demolished and a new street, nearly 50 feet wide, was cut through the site. It …
Survey of London
… up residence, with Lady Russell, at Southampton House. The new Duke is said to have been 'the richest peer in England, … undertook to use his influence to obtain a patent for a 'new generall Market' for 'Flesh, Fish & Fowl', which was to … [of Bedford House] as shall be agreed on', and to let this new market to the undertakers for whatever period remained of …
Survey of London
… in 1858 the seventh Duke's donations to schools (including new buildings) amounted to over 17,000. 201 In the 1830's the … 1830 and cost the Duke some 61,000. The opening of these new streets in the southwest corner of the estate and the … had been a need to improve northsouth communication by a new street leading northward out of the Strand, but the …
Survey of London
… had not descended to the third Earl 46 (see page 205) so a new house was built for his future occupation on the north …
Survey of London
… regeneration of the neighbourhood was the formation of a new street from York Street to Drury Lane, an improvement … Marquis Court, Cross Court and Red Lion Court in 1899. The new street was at first called York Street but since 1937 has … The eleventh Duke did not entirely sever his family's connexion with Covent Garden after the sale. St. Paul's …
Survey of London
… in this account, Mon-mouth, King, Black Eagle and (New) George Streets, have been either absorbed into the … larger site (see page 98). Bucknall certainly erected two new houses on his ground 3 before his death in 1679, 2 but … Brick Lane and premises in Coverley's Fields, in Mile End New Town (see page 280). All of this, like the Spitalfields …
A History of the County of Oxford
… known as Selden End, was completed in 1640, over the new Congregation House. The beginning of the Divinity School … was held by Master Richard Winchcombe, 4 who had served New College in a similar capacity at the building of … estate. Up to 6 Nov. 1615 his executors had paid, in connexion with the third story, nearly 2,500 62 and by the …
Survey of London
… with modern road names The cherry orchard between the new road and Old Brompton Road had been Gunter property since … Honey Lane, until this was supplanted in the 1860's by a new road, Finborough Road, which joined Old Brompton Road …
Survey of London
… extension of Moreton Gardens but the creation of a small new street opening off Old Brompton Road across the former … the designs at the Royal Academy (Plate 101a). Each new house was planned 'with a view to combining a small … a small 'model's room' off it or upstairs. Externally the new houses were to be in a Voyseyish Arts-and-Crafts suburban …