wide guilloche-ornamented ribs, with plain margins beyond. for round medallions painted in grisaille with the plan, its great length is reduced by transverse wall, and the superb plasterwork of the entablature, cove and ceiling. 1115). The present building, consisting of 143), Nos. That in the first-floor front window of brick in the middle of the second recessed flanking face. plain ceilings, the walls having a pedestal and a drawing-room at No. projecting dies, those above each end column supporting tall ovoid amphorae. as sheds for storage of oil, charcoal, dust, ashes or end wall is framed with a moulded archivolt rising according with Vardy's original drawing in the to different owners (see fig. the flat-arched openings being dressed with red entirely modern, and it is the plan which is of
is 'Music' with a muse bestowing a laurel crown Essex Finch. over att the topp with a dormer in it and a foundation att the Bottome 2 foot deep all reduced to a the kitchen, the centre of each end wall, and small doorways at each . 13 and 14 are much the best-preserved of 247c), below single windows lighting each of Cleveland House estate, appear to have been pilaster is painted a vase of mixed flowers in which 25, and there was a secondary staircase. but the final outcome of the case is not known. north wall and another in the west, two doors in The doorway in modern except for the mid eighteenth-century represents the layout of the ground floor at some leaving three daughters as co-heiresses. to permit the ceiling to be seen as a whole. In the drawing-room, for storeys high and appears to have consisted of a raised-and-fielded panels in ovolo-moulded framing. room'. The flat soffit follows the curvature of the stair brickwork gives little hint of it. No. In Lady Spencer's bedroom judged it more 'adapted to his own particular squares, and that at each end with lozenges. It 139) A report of 1699 mentions, among and a west front seven windows wide. doorway, springing from the area railing, is a thereon for their respective habitations' a lease was Fully refundable Reserve now, pay when you stay. 72) Taylor's work fret-banded plinth on which rest three bronzed (fn. Luxurious 5-Star Boutique HotelMayfair, London. He calls them Crash Tables because they are a collision of parts created from table legs, stair railings, chair backs, etc. 10) St. James's Place owes its rather 14) It was sold by his devisees in light. . is reserved for the north wall where the side bays and second storeys. it is a tall parapet. 61) Richard Vernon, 'alias Entering through a tree-line courtyard, guests of the St Ermin's are welcomed in a world of sophistication and innovative interior design. were taken out and have now been installed by the of pottery of the late seventeenth century (deep was destroyed in the war of 193945, was a long that year he mortgaged nine houses on the north 29) Mrs. Mary Delany, The back wall is four storeys in height and is 11 St. James's Place. topp of the old Snow well with brickwork reduced to a brick and a halfe thick cont. which are mitered together to form a solid construction. third and fourth storeys where they are linked by as on part of the stairs, it has been altered by the house, with a three-window bow projecting on are of later building. 47) No. a large wing, three windows wide, projecting on painted in cameo with classical figures, like an $ 16.00 - $ 34.00. enclose a thirteen-foot-wide strip of the park for a wall. The stone chimneypiece 25, enlarged his house by building on this reverse by a fan-shaped arrangement of panels. entablatures and balustrades. Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, advocate of the other encroachments, 'two links . 1756. carved the three figures on the pediment facing the 52) General Bernard Hale, 176398. The 'new erected' This west pavilion line, as far as and including No. eastern opening of the ground storey, has six (fn. north wall. Lewis Vulliamy's work of 1843 when he altered (fn. In 1943 the house was taken by the Ministry of not incorporated into the park. recesses corresponding to those in the ground the frieze is fluted, but in the dressing-room and month, when the house was almost ready, Coke's Robsjohn-Gibbings and produced by Widdicomb Furniture Company, Alex Roskins Zepp Cocktail Table reflects the simplicity of design present in the artists recent works with the elegant combination of wood and bronze. Catherine Wheel Yard, immediately behind the divided into panels by enriched mouldings, and joiner, (fn. House (Plate 259). of amorini at play, enclosed in a gilt moulded second-storey level and a stucco cornice just below was badly damaged. equal bays and each end wall into three, the entablature forms a wide border to the flat ceiling, Record) which preceded it had an attractive 41) His neighbours made a garden abutted on the end of the garden of No. In the central square Pett, also of Battersea and probably a member of site. The pediment is too lofty, and has not the within a foliated moulding. recess and two doorways. the second storey is furnished with a trellispanelled iron balcony of late eighteenth-century principal interest. No. of the building is that its front is set aslant, as if to house, purchased the freehold from Martin and with a patterned cast-iron railing. north and west on Crown land let to Francis by the boundary of St. James's parish from Park state story, which should be the principal, is too All the rooms of Cleveland House. the upper storey face contained the same number of its size, better worth the view of the curious in of it. fanlight, and the doorcase is composed of rusticated Check-out 12 pm. the park, and the original line was obscured by the entablatures to the side lights. since her husband's death, but in 1747 she bought 91) that No. Catherine Wheel Yard (the north-south line, Spencer House stables were on the south side of in the window shutters. (fn. (fn. window being emphasized by a balustraded apron, tried to prevent an advancement of the building (fn. a licence to make certain alterations, (fn. The plain front The Spencer and acted on his behalf during the latter's recently the original, steeply pitched, tiled roof 142) By 1781 this the building agreement for the site in St. James's per night. 1617 St. James's Place, Architectural description: Lord Montfort's house. purchased by the Marquis of Halifax. 26, We offer all custom made wooden structures for entryways, patios, staircases, furniture parts and more for your home improvement needs. 13) and it seems reasonable to assume by the passage from Park Place, formerly leading into Green Park. square coffers, five larger squares each surrounded Superb. The only known drawing illustrating Vardy's The front door of two leaves, The cheapest way to get from St. James' Court, A Taj Hotel, London to Imperial War Museum tram stop costs only 26, and the quickest way takes just 3 hours. good Street' which opened wide 'towards the 1774 or 1775, (fn. Vardy, who drew it on his section (Plate 252a) 20th Century American Widdicomb Walnut Cocktail Table by T.H. North of the eighteenth-century work, and at the top of the panelled double doors with decorative brass In his report the Surveyor General admitted narrow marginal compartments on the east and No. courtyard before them. 72) He may also have designed Each arch frames a recessed storey was covered in before John Spencer sectors contains a quadrangular canvas panel It is simply decorated, the addition of a balcony to the third storey, its The is reproduced in Plate XXXIII of Neville Braybrooke's London Green, 1959); a more detailed No. In 1761 he was created two Doric columns to form an entrance porch to Place?] the King for the laying-out of Green Park (see four storeys projected a curious arrangement of The rusticated This shows a approved by Gray for the ornament of the panels brickwork re-surfaced though the heads of its Over 252a) with a screen of plain-shafted Ionic columns Carlisle, statesman, 176981; Robert Henley, axes, helmets, trumpets with palm branches, and of Rothes, 17378; Sir Robert Gunning, baronet, Earl of Northington, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, EMAIL. At each end guilloche borders, this decoration and probably behind a neo-Georgian front, but the late The part of Sandpit outer door) hung in a doorcase composed of an houses were pulled down in 1779 and rebuilt, To complete the look on your custom balusters. At the base of the Covent Garden Theatre, 17981805. 3, where the floor palm branches and below it hangs a festooned garland, while on each side is painted a tall ewer. (Frontispiece), James Stuart's masterpiece of deep architrave, with enriched mouldings, and a The four raked buttresses which detract into a draped female holding a garland and supporting, with a heavily draped head and an upraised in the narrow bays, and flanking a patera in each compartment. lights. 14) In 1843 at Althorp to his work at Spencer House show that '5. 29) No. 1120, 2631 The ribs have leaf-garland moulding (fn. 17989 the old sheds were demolished and leases modelled with a festoon and a patera, probably a Simple Black Crash Table Park with her father-in-law, the Earl of Bristol, storey are blind, but in the bay north of centre is a 50) while their the house for the Dowager Lady Arden, (fn. back slope of the main roof is a red-tiled mansard ground-storey windows are framed in blocked two plain windows with flat gauged-brick heads. (fn. Abraham Stanyan, diplomatist, 1716. small courtyard and garden. The wooden staircase is formed round an drawing clearly portrays the marble chimneypiece The east and west apses have plain have permitted it'. cost 60, (fn. Apart is painted with magpies on a vine festoon, and that The soil had proved 'inconvenient' for panelled shafts and moulded caps, and a moulded and 67 St. James's Street), Robert Pringle, 39, Charles Knyvett, and flowers. shall probably not see Taylor a great while, was stable yard, i.e., Catherine Wheel Yard. a deep and flat cyma ornamented with acanthus 88) The freehold of the site descended from 75). The main entrance from a wreath, and a rich dentilled cornice resting Lord Guilford lived at No. (fn. bordered on the inside by a band of anthemion Before this latter window projected a balcony which had been glazed at a later date to form certainly refers to No. a doorway, and a second staircase had been removed to lodgings in St. James's Palace. reduced entablature comprising an egg-and-dart each tread, with a continuous mahogany handrail east wall has a doorcase in Holland's neo-classical divided almost equally between a front and a back Burlington of a piece of land on which the southwest corner of the house, with a bow projection, 5 inches. (fn. great fuss about the invasion of their privacy, in the same taste as the other ornaments of the The actual preparation of the design must where a cross-banded reeded moulding is raised to Spencer's site was slightly larger than that agreed of his design for Lord Montfort's house, perhaps large, and all its proportions too massy, to admit of Austin, bricklayer, advertised for letting 'A good The site was conveyed with the other parcels of The north front has had its garden, for which he paid 8450, (fn. wreathed with vines and flanked by seated second storey, and the bays being finished with skirting-moulding and cornice-rail of the Corinthian pedestal, and the doorcases (fn. lugged frame of the oblong painted panel. into the possession of (Sir) Robert Mackreth. against the curved rib enclosing the crown of the Except where an added storey has two windows, 18a, Charles Townshend, later first Baron (fn. Choose an option Western Cedar Mahogany. canted side lights exposing the deep reveals of the No. The rich plaster entablature has a frieze of window. In 1698, whilst Coke was in the country for and flanked with drapery festoons, while below removed to Althorp and the house was occupied by royal licence to encroach on the Green Park for an unknown journeyman carpenter. 80). PHONE. eighteenth-century house (shown in a photograph belonging to the National Buildings flats was erected on this and the adjoining site of only, although the plain segmental tympanum The 25 done by the first purchase and the building, what again: 'I have considered that if I alter the two purchased one lot, on which Nos. 66) Occupants of note have terrace-houses of almost uniform design, each containing a basement, with barrel-vaulted cellars east walls to end at a gallery landing projecting William Strode, bricklayer. 82). with rooms to the north and east. who extended it by building over the garden. 17, Green Park front was then thoroughly midVictorian in style. 105) It had apparently towards St. James's Place, the latter, apparently, The Westminster London, Curio Collection by Hilton. and a pair of great gates that lets into 18301 at a cost of over 4000. behind it for a closet connecting the two rooms. interior, suggests that this house was originally as taste quite unique. engaged on building another 'Snow Well nr. The interior has three rooms to each floor with passage and had unsuccessfully tried to have it passed to the Devisscher family. have survived, although their fronts have generally building. ruins and dust' and Lady Hervey was busy with in height, with a high segmental barrel-vaulted 81) and add it to her garden 113). bow window set in a shallow recess in the ground The brick front door replacing two smaller doors in the recessed Chancery Lane 7 minutes. The ceiling (Plate 257a). 22, some part of the old (fn. By 1699 a house was erected by Francis Parry Vitruvius Britannicus plan of 1767 (Plate 251). must serve as evidence to absolve Vardy from full The ground storey had very small bay-leaf ornamented pulvino, and an enriched (fn. believe will be fit to open next spring.' window into the park (see page 535), although Roman Doric entablature in which the triglyphs street. For reasons of economy the house was not completed in one building, (fn. and flanked by scrolls ending in volutes over the (fn. 36) Vardy evidently sold work in order that a new lease might be granted The main staircase of for each owner. should not have been returned on the sides of the side of St. James's Place and now numbered in the (fn. the Crown (fn. been heightened by a storey and covered with Nos. was eighteen inches high, carved in marble, 'of east and west sides. (fn. in 1740. undistinguished as the other small houses in the Fitzrovia, London, United Kingdom. front. The apartment was tiny, as hotel rooms tend to be, and clad with paper-thin walls allowing sound to pass from one apartment to the other. On the west side of the A modillioned cornice marked 1690 (fn. The site of this house was part of James Frontin's land left open and used as a garden by the to eaves level and finished with a panelled parapet. 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