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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… avenue leading from the northern end of the village high street. Its brick seven-bay entrance front was flanked by …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… preacher began holding services in a barn on High Street. Under the patronage of Martin Slater of Hall farm a …
Survey of London
… been built. The present part of the house which fronts the street appears to be of mid-18th century date, but this was …
Survey of London
… Mr. F. Hemmings. The house stands at the corner of Flood Street, originally called Pound Lane, then Robinson's Row, and later Queen Street. The village pound used to stand opposite the end of … "Mrs." Norman who is the subject of Faulkner's graceful little encomium, and who died in 1827, leaving 112 4s., the …
Survey of London
… We now pass over the five houses between No. 6 and Manor Street, which have been rebuilt upon the site of six or seven … the dining-room but stops short at the original wall. This little room retains its panelling and cornice. The front part … on the old riverside. Faulkner places Admiral Balchen in Little Chelsea. He is supposed to have taken the house of Sir …
Survey of London
… the rate-lists as the occupant of a small house in Lombard Street, the southern portion of which was destroyed at the … high; he could also shave, bleed, draw teeth, and play a little on the fiddle, and every year he added stranger … So he entertained Sir John Cope and Narcissus Luttrell of Little Chelsea, the annalist, Vice-Admiral Munden and …
Survey of London
… Cheyne, in 1712, the Great Garden stretched from Flood Street as far as the western wall of the present No. 18 … still to be seen in the Middlesex Land Registry. There is little doubt that Nos. 1, 2, and 3 Cheyne Walk were such …
Survey of London
… staircases of the two houses are alike in detail and the little hall (Plate 30) is very characteristic of the period. …
Survey of London
… early as the 18th and even 17th centuries. In the basement little is left beyond an interesting old dresser, and a pump … a note in the diary of Narcissus Luttrell, who lived at Little Chelsea, we learn that her daughter married a Mr. …
Survey of London
… partly hidden by trees. Everything is simplethe double wood gates with stout iron grilles, 1 the brick piers and … be found. The garden at one time communicated with Flood Street, and this, therefore, formed a second entrance. The … who has been the subject of so much comment and not a little criticism. His extensions to the house were for the …