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Old and New London
… Apsley House and Park Lane CHAPTER XXIX. APSLEY HOUSE AND PARK LANE. "Tecto quum vidit in illo] Magnum … Site, and builds a MansionThe First Earl BathurstApsley House purchased by the Nation for the Duke of …
Calendar of Documents Preserved in France
… [of Compostella], passing by ( per) the holy and religious house of La Sauve Majeure ( Silve Majoris), he has given it … ( Regule), Sanctius de Mirallo, burgess of La Role, sold a house to John Broca, reserving to himself an annual rent of … wrong doing, and decreed that whoever, thenceforth, sold a house or anything else, reserving a rent, must pay the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… signifies "the confluence of the water below the Baron's house," and is descriptive of the site of the ancient castle and of the present mansion-house, upon the narrow point of a projection overlooking the … of them measuring eighteen inches in length. Arbuthnott House, the seat of the ancient and noble family of …
Survey of London
… Arch House and Lombard Terrace, 64-67, Cheyne Walk XLVII.L.ARCH HOUSE AND LOMBARD TERRACE, Nos. 64 to 67, CHEYNE WALK. Ground … houses, built upon the site of the northern part of Arch House, appear to date from early in the 19th century. There …
Survey of London
… above Ground Description When John Evelyn visited Brooke House on 8 May 1654, he described it as 'a despicable … qualities that Evelyn had found wanting, Brooke House came to be imagined as having connexions with rather … brought to an end the period of 180 years during which the house had been used as a mental institution, and, following …
Survey of London
… been constructed like the other floors of the original house, with primary and secondary binders. The inference is … the conclusion that this had once been the chapel of the house. The discovery, on the wide pier at the east end of the …
Survey of London
… evidence above ground The construction of the house The Construction of the House It is now necessary to give a brief general account of … without becoming aware that the craftsmen who built Brooke House were men who exercised their own initiative, some …
Survey of London
… below Ground The removal of the superstructure of Brooke House left the area unencumbered, with the bases of walls … date, relating to the later occupation of the house and therefore of no value for the earlier phases of its … on the relationships of the different parts. At Brooke House, however, the foundations were entirely of brick, and …
Survey of London
… in Phase I Architecturally, the main fabric of Brooke House appears to have come into existence as an entity, … thickness of the walls indicated that this part of Brooke House was of brick throughout; the height of the brick jambs … phase of large-scale alterations and additions to Brooke House was interposed on the north side a series of operations …
Survey of London
… or not there was evidence in the superstructure of the house for any succession of alterations, the plan as revealed … throughout the period of the institutional use of Brooke House it had been part of the domestic offices in which had … in the papers of Sir Rowland Hayward, who owned Brooke House from 1583 to 1593 (page 61). The boundary wall extended …
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