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Há 5 dias · Clarence Gardens were planned by Nash as the second market but developed into a residential square (oblong in proportions) divided into two gardens by Osnaburgh Street. The houses surrounding it, which are now derelict or have already disappeared, were unpretentious, being of three storeys of stock brick above and a plastered ...
Há 4 dias · On the west side a house with 1½ a. was conveyed in 1714 by John Coram, lately a timber merchant of London, to Markham Eeles, who in 1715 was licensed to inclose roadside waste. (fn. 13) It was probably rebuilt as a five-bayed house by Eeles, a china merchant from whom it was nicknamed Piss Pot Hall, and as no. 179 Lower Clapton ...
Há 4 dias · A. Part of Sandpit Field, C. Strip of land originally held with Berkshire House on which west wing of Cleveland House was built and, north of dotted line, site sold to Francis Parry in 1695. F. House formerly occupied by John Ogle. I. The Antelope. L. Site of east wing of Cleveland House.
Há 4 dias · The Gore House estate was the name given to some twenty-one and a half acres on the south side of Kensington Road for which the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 paid £60,000 in August 1852, the first of their land purchases in the area. (fn. 1) The name seems, however, to have been first used, merely for convenience, during the ...
Há 4 dias · These houses were pulled down in 1674, and most of the new houses on either side of Villiers Street were built in 1674–5. A comparison of the rates charged shows that the Villiers Street houses were for the most part smaller than those in Buckingham Street. In some cases they were used at first merely as annexes to their Buckingham Street ...
Há 4 dias · The mansion takes its name from Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, by whose father-in-law, Sir Walter Cope, it was built, in the year 1607, from the designs of John Thorpe, the famous architect of several of the baronial mansions of England which were erected about that time.
Há 5 dias · In 1672 James, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, obtained permission by patent to build on his ground west of Great Salisbury House. (fn. 334) A copy of Sir Christopher Wren's plan of the ground dealt with in this patent is given here, the area to be newly built on being indicated by the thick line. Accordingly, in Strype's words, Little Salisbury House ...
