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Survey of London
… in order that these grandees might build themselves large houses, conveniently near the Court of St. James. About April … condition 'that there be not builded thereupon above ten houses or Twelve at the most, and not any of those to Cost … the site now occupied by Sackville Street and the houses on either side of it, were let by Pulteney to Richard …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… families, unconnected with business, have built handsome houses here as a favourite residence for the benefit of … edifice containing 720 sittings. There are several meeting-houses, and a mechanics' institute. A public library is … Tyne, consists of irregularly built and widely detached houses, and is chiefly inhabited by persons employed in …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… valley on the eastern boundary of the parish. Most of the houses that comprise the compact village of Saddington are of … housing is confined to the Fleckney road where the first houses were built in 1919; 1 by 1961 three pairs and one block of four houses had been completed. At the north end of the village, …
Survey of London
… describes visiting Islington where there are 'two pretty houses' (that is to say, Sadler's Wells and New Tunbridge … rooms at the time charged 2 s 6 d, and even suburban music houses at Richmond, Lambeth and Hampstead charged a shilling; … Sadler's Wells and a number of other theatres and gaming houses as 'places kept apart for the encouragement of luxury, …
Old and New London
… same course, the performers being conveyed between the two houses by special carriages. Williams's speculation, however, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… town are numerous examples of 15th-century and later town-houses, which well illustrate the development of that type of … projecting entrance, and is weather-boarded. b (149). New Houses, row of six tenements m. N.N.E. of the parish church, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… trow; salteynge troughe] A large TROUGH, quite common in houses, in which to salt MEAT. It may have been made with a …