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Survey of London
… along the length of Davies Street. One of these, Bourdon House, which happily survives and is described below, … the south corner of Brook Street and adjoined the corner house. It was built by John Barnes, bricklayer, and first occupied by him from 1728 to 1736. 3 Originally the house appears to have been quite small with a narrow, …
Survey of London
… Carpenter Street and including the Oliver's Mount public house on the west corner with that street, were built by John … had previously done excellent work at the adjoining Wren House (see below), the group consists of two new houses with … in the middle at ground-floor level leading to a third house at the rear which was a conversion of one of the back …
Survey of London
… Duke of Westminster, who, however, died shortly before the house was completed. 138 It is an attractive two-storey mews house in yellow stock bricks, the ancestry of which is … which are now painted. No. 26 is a conversion of a coach-house and stables, which, from its M-shaped hipped roof, may …
Survey of London
… 26 are straightforward conversions of stables and a coach-house into garages and flats above with white-painted …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the coal masters and the notorious sub-contractors called charter masters, 7 and rising food prices in the late 18th …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 38 There was no curate's residence until 1838 when a house was built at Brandlee. 39 The names of two mid … chapel, an isolated building a little east of Spout House, 79 was a small sandstone structure c. 15 metres long, … formerly a chapel at Little Dawley, 14 and mention of a house there called the 'old chapel' in 1631, 15 suggest that …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… there were at least five ginpits, apparently operated by charter masters, in 1737. 76 There were clusters of pits in … brother John leased the minerals to a group of local charter masters: Beriah Botfield, William Gibbons, and … at Old Park furnaces were of stone from a quarry on Spout House farm in 1791, 18 and the early 19thcentury cottages at …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… township included Wynne's Coppice, another timber-framed house. 58 Much woodland survived in the north-west of the … have been more extensive: in 1363 seven cottages and a house were said to be in decay. 60 The pre-industrial … scattered dwellings: farms at Dark Lane, Hinkshay, 'Park House', and 'Coppy House', probably individual dwellings, are …