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Survey of London
… comprised the site and grounds of the Knightsbridge lazar-house. No. 1 Albert Gate, the French Embassy, which occupies the site of the lazar-house itself, latterly the White Hart tavern, is treated … & Sons of Bracknell, with dressings of Hartham Park stone. The stonework was carved by H. H. Martyn & Company of …
Survey of London
… when Thomas Cubitt's final Albert Gate mansion, Hyde Park House, was being completed. They include the present-day … by No. 11 High Row. 134 The new building, a handsome stone-faced palazzo with correct classical detail (Plate 20c … Francis Hooper. The exterior, of red brick and Portland stone, is in the eclectic (predominantly Franco-Flemish) …
Survey of London
… many years been let by the Abbey with a hospital or lazar-house on the north side of the road (where the French Embassy … Abbey estate and passed into the ownership of the Crown. A house and pleasure ground called Spring Gardens was … side of the road (roughly the area now occupied by Bowater House and the properties eastwards as far as Albert Gate). 2 …
Survey of London
… for his mother and sister. Burton himself lived in a house near the entrance to the footguards barracks, and his … in style. The terrace was brick-faced with stucco or stone dressings, the end houses emphasized by the addition of … palace faade, executed in cement stucco and Portland stone, with a centrepiece surmounted by a pediment and …
Survey of London
… 1670 by Poultney's tenant Henry Swindell, who built a house there with extensive pleasure grounds. 92 This … laid with a very close joint', and York, Bath and Portland stone for the dressings. There were iron balconies at … it was built on a steel frame and faced in Portland stone, with a profusion of carved baroque ornamentation and …
Survey of London
… or maisonettes above, Gastrell's section including Wilton House, No. 87 Knightsbridge, a group of private apartments. … at the top of William Street, where the northernmost house had to be cut back. A turret was added on the corner, … of Knightsbridge, is carried out in two-inch brick with stone dressings. The rich and often quirky detail includes …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… some rough ashlar of sandstone; the roofs are covered with stone slates. The Chancel was built late in the 12th century, … projecting sill, late 13th-century, now containing an old stone mortar. ConditionGood, much restored. Secular (2). … century. Modern inscriptions record an enlargement of the house in 1561 and its almost complete rebuilding in 1867. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Methodists, and Wesleyans. Near the Swan inn is an ancient house, formerly a convent. Knott-Lanes KNOTT-LANES, a … vases, inkstands, and various ornaments. There are also stone-quarries. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the … erected at different times; its most ancient part is of stone, with two round towers, and is said to have been raised …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… of the churchyard, known since about 1950 as the Old Manor House. 6 It is an Lshaped stone building apparently dating from the 16th or early 17th … a T-shaped ironstone house, known as the Walnuts. It has stone mullioned windows with moulded hoods, two belonging to …