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… Fields, bounded on the west by Hedge Lane (now Wardour Street) and on the south by the highway later King Street and … as his brewhouse, Joseph Girle had a house at Westbourne Green and also owned lands and houses in St. Marylebone. 12 … Thomas mortgaged ground there to him for 16,000. 9 A little later he also advanced money to Frith and Thomas in …
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… was the building lessee of a terrace of houses in Hereford Street in 1777. 169 The others usually styled themselves … 158 Part of Simmons's composition survived in a little-altered state at No. 1 Grosvenor Square until c. 1936 … St. Marylebone) he was given possession of some ground in Green Street by Thomas Barlow and Robert Andrews, who were …
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… were made before leases were granted a frontage to Oxford Street taken by a brickmaker in exchange for an existing … an existing agreement for a plot on the west side of Park Street (no. 61 on plan A) for thirty guineas 'and divers … but were sometimes exceeded when leases were granted; and little attempt was made to provide a common starting or …
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… and do the necessary paving work to the middle of the street; to build his stables or other buildings at the back … their principal frontages on major streets such as Brook Street or Grosvenor Square and long return frontages to other streets such as Davies Street or Duke Street, a condition was often inserted that …
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… under agreement the ground on which Nos. 6678 (even) Brook Street were built, contracted with Thomas Fayram, mason, that … which were, in fact, loans from Hoare's Bank. 240 Little is known about the majority of mortgagees apart from … could find his affairs severely compromised at times. John Green was described as 'a very wealthy Builder' at the time …
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… about paying rates on several of his houses in South Street which were standing empty, 316 and of the thirty-eight … was completed, the basic layout scheme was adhered to with little alteration, and on the whole the development can be … House in Davies Street, Roger Morris's own house at No. 61 Green Street, Ligonier's house at No. 12 North Audley Street, …
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… frontage. In early agreements covering sites in Grosvenor Street and Brook Street the ground rents were usually 6 s. per foot on the Grosvenor Street frontages and 5 s. on Brook Street, the plots being …
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… World full of Bricklayers and Labourers; who seem to have little else to do, but like Gardeners, to dig a Hole, put in … well into the Grosvenor estate and even north of Oxford Street, in the vicinity of Cavendish Square. More deeds were … Conduit Mead property in the vicinity of New Bond Street, and the men who initially carried through the …
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… eighteenth century as Oliver's Mount. 99 Probably by then little more than a raised earthwork, it was, however, … to give its name to Mount Field and subsequently to Mount Street, Mount Row and the Mount Coffee House, and the … streets were formed than originally intended, including Green Street, and the site of the projected chapel was …
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… purchase of an assumed ground rent of 7 per acre, was little more than the agricultural value of the land and was … They later also sold the freehold of No. 15 Grosvenor Street at thirty years' purchase of the ground rent of 4 10 … ground at the south-east corner of Park Street and Green Street. 305 The Grosvenors did not promote the …