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Survey of London
… and south-east, which was formerly known as Deadman's Place. Nos. 2026 These three-storey buildings are of yellow … floor windows have plain-panelled wood shutters. Each house has one window on each floor fronting on to the street. … 1584 Cure obtained Letters Patent to establish a college or hospital for poor people there, and endowed it with his …
Survey of London
… the estate, the entrances were originally very narrow, a house in each of the principal streets projecting across half … few years, except at No. 2 where complete rebuilding took place (fig. 57: see also Plate 50a, 50b in vol. XXXIX). Nos. … without either encroaching on the pavement (with an area) or sacrificing space on the upper storeys. At the back …
Survey of London
… Brook Street in 1913 and in 1919 was rebuilt as a separate house to the design of Wimperis and Simpson. 142 Above the … sashes, those on the second floor segmental-headed. The house was planned so that all the windows face Culross Street … over the stables adds very little to the value of the house'. 143 This building still exists, though the north …
Survey of London
… is still preserved in much of Park Street by the rear or return fronts of such modern giants as Aldford House, Fountain House and Grosvenor House at the south end … a further increase in the scale of the architecture. In place of individual houses, large blocks of flats were now …
Survey of London
… of Park Street, overlooking the garden of Grosvenor House and visible from Hyde Park, was much more prominent … gestation of the design was not, however, as effortless or simple as Goodhart-Rendel thought; the plans and … redevelopment of the site was proposed in the first place by Eustace Balfour, the estate surveyor. In March 1906 …
Survey of London
… Street: West Side Former houses on the site of Aldford House. Seven houses were erected here under an agreement made … 128), Sir Stephen Anderson, 3rd bt., 174473. Countess or Morton, wid. of 15th Earl, 17781823: her son, 16th Earl, … in 191921, a short-lived but interesting rebuilding took place at the southern end. General reconstruction of the …
Survey of London
… trellis, out of which elaborate porches are formed. Each house has two rooms towards the garden and the more important … had bay windows and some battlemented features. Each house is flanked by a small coach-house. Nos. 22 and 24, by contrast to the foregoing, show an …
Survey of London
… falls behind and the three storeys of this part of the house are all a stage lower than the tower. The balustrade of … urns. At the side of the entrance is a one-storey coach-house, now a studio, built much later than the house, with tetra-style pilaster treatment, pediment and …
Survey of London
… nephew, the Earl of Abingdon, conveyed the Danvers House property to William Sloane in 1717. From a deed, dated … document makes the tenure subject to a lease of the large house built "for nursing silkworms," held by William Lilly, … are taken from the rate books: No. 5. 17371741. Hutchins or Hutchinson 1748. Lady Isham (with No. 7) 1749. John …
Survey of London: volume
… intended bridge, but also to make, open, design, assign or lay out such new ways, streets and passages, as they shall … Office to the Privy Garden (including Mistress Lowther's house, yard and garden) and so on along the back of the Lord … Street eastward to Cannon Row 2 disappeared, and in their place was formed a new northand-south thoroughfare, parallel …