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A History of the County of Middlesex
… made the rest of Chelsea seem poor, but the areas of small houses, tradesmen, and shopkeepers were not necessarily … 51 per cent of the dwellings in the borough were undivided houses, 39 per cent were flats and tenements, and 10 per cent … the virtues of Michelin tyres. 4 Also in Fulham Road Thurloe Court, a block of private flats, was built shortly …
Survey of London
… mullioned windows were also replaced by sash windows. The houses adjoining on the west side, facing High-street, which … down to make room for a larger building but the adjoining houses are for the most part still intact. Bibliographical … showing more fully the relation of the "Seven Stars" and houses adjoining to the Old Palace. In the Committee's MS. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… before the Norman Conquest, the place contained 104 houses, and three mintmasters. Arms. The town is situated on … of obstructions and the erection of some good dwelling-houses and shops. The inhabitants are supplied with water … of Sandown bay and the ocean; it contains several lodging-houses, and two excellent hotels. At a short distance is a …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… of this demolished specimen of old English dwelling-houses. The seven manors in Shaddingfield are now held1st, by …
A Dictionary of London
… or Maypole, which was laid under pentises of one row of houses and the Alley gate, called of the shaft " shaft alley" …
The Environs of London
… Joseph Butler, M. A. instituted in the year 1741. Meeting-houses. There is a meeting-house belonging to the … population during the last 50 years. The present number of houses is about 1300. Plague year. In the month of September … which 50 boys and 20 girls are clothed and educated. Alms-houses. Dame Alice Row, who died in 1702, left all her …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… lay on the W. of the abbey, where gardens and scattered houses now flank the street called Bimport. The population at … not fortified at that time. Domesday Book records that 80 houses out of the 257 in existence twenty years earlier, then … course of time it disappeared altogether and gardens and houses took its place. In 1816 Charles Bowles started …
Survey of London
… of intention to demolish in any one parish fifteen or more houses occupied by the labouring classes, and had stipulated … the Board should not take fifteen or more working-class houses until it had satisfied the Home Secretary that … that if the restriction on taking fifteen labouring-class houses or more were enforced the completion of the two …
Survey of London
… the Board should not take fifteen or more working-class houses until it had satisfied the Home Secretary that … least altered in character of the surviving Crown Street houses. It is a very modest building, having above the ground … Nos. 66 and 64 Crown Street This originally comprised two houses, respectively two and three windows wide, their simple …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Shapinshay are also several of those remains called Picts' houses, along the coast; and near Cliffdale, a subterranean … an area of about 855 square miles, or 547,200 acres; 5530 houses, of which 5388 are inhabited; and containing a … with square stones; the ruins of churches and religious houses, among which are those of St. Hilary's kirk; Druidical …