PERIOD PROPERTIES

 

See Also: ARCHITECTURE; WINSTON CHURCHILL The Cabinet War Rooms; EXHIBITING GALLERIES Raven Row; HERITAGE; MUSIC HALL Wilton s; THE THAMES The Embankment and Sir Joseph Bazalgette, Strand-on-the-Green; MENU

 

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The Adam Room

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The Adam Room (1788) on the eleventh floor of the Lloyd's of London Building (1986) is used for important meetings. The Room was designed by the Scottish architect Robert Adam as the dining room of Bowood House in Wiltshire, the country house of the 1st Marquis of Lansdowne. Bowood was demolished in 1955. However, before this happened, the Room was bought by Lloyd s, dismantled, and then incorporated into the body s then home. Subsequently, it was taken to pieces and reassembled a second time within the Richard Rogers-designed tower.

Location: Lloyd's of London Building, 1 Lime Street, EC3M 7HA (purple, grey)

See Also: DEVELOPMENTS The Adelphi; INSURANCE Lloyd's of London

Website: https://c20society.org.uk/2011/12/20/lloyds-building-grade-i-listed

 

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Bankside

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It was long maintained that Sir Christopher Wren (d.1723) lived at No. 49 Bankside during the construction of St Paul's Cathedral. Despite the building's fine view of the cathedral, this was probably not the case.

Location: 49 Bankside, SE1 9JE. The house is located between The Globe and The Tate Modern. (red, blue)

Website: https://londongardenstrust.org/ogsw/2019/gardens/49Bankside.php

 

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Berry Brothers & Rudd

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The wine merchants Berry Brothers & Rudd has a bow-fronted premises on St James's Street. The business was founded in 1698.

Location: 3 St James's Street, SW1A 1EG (orange, red)

See Also: WINE Wine Merchants, Berry Brothers & Rudd

Website: www.bbr.com

 

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The Coram Foundation's Governors' Court Room

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No. 49 Mecklenburgh Square houses the headquarters of The Thomas Coram Foundation. The building contains a re-assembly of the 18thC Foundling Hospital's Governors Court Room.

Location: 49 Mecklenburgh Square, WC1N 2NU (red, blue)

See Also: CHILD WELFARE The Thomas Coram Foundation for Children

Website: www.coram.org.uk

 

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The Cosmic House

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The garden designer Maggie Keswick's (1941-1995) family wealth was derived from a Hong Kong-based conglomerate. She married the architectural critic Charles Jencks (1939-2019). The couple bought an 1840s end-of-the-terrace villa in Holland. Jencks and the architects Terry Farrell and Michael Graves made a number of changes to building in order to try to implement some of the theorist's ideas. The sculptors Eduardo Paolozzi and Celia Scott also participated in the project. They termed the result The Thematic House. In 2021 the building opened to the public as The Cosmic House.

Location: 19 Lansdowne Walk, W11 3AH (purple, orange)

See Also: CANCER, Maggie's Centres; LAVATORIES PoMo Po

Website: www.thecosmichouse.org www.jencksfoundation.org

 

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No. 18 Folgate Street

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Dennis Severs was a Californian who moved to England in 1967. A dozen years later he bought the then derelict No. 18 Folgate Street, an 18thC Spitalfields townhouse. He restored the property s rooms in a variety of 18thC and 19thC styles. It is possible to view his creation.

Location: 18 Folgate Street, E1 6BX (blue, yellow)

Website: https://dennissevershouse.co.uk

 

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Fribourg & Treyer

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Fribourg & Treyer, Tobacconists To His Majesty and Purveyors of Foreign Snuffs to the Royal Family was a business that was established in 1720. The shop was constructed c.1770.

The Fribourg & Treyer business closed in 1981. In 2013 the premises were occupied by a gift shop.

Location: 34 Haymarket, SW1Y 4HA (blue, orange)

See Also: SNUFF Fribourg & Treyer

Website: https://pipedia.org/wiki/Fribourg_%26_Treyer

 

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Prince Henry's Room

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Prince Henry's Room was the first place of historical interest that the London County Council bought and restored. The local authority did so using the powers that it had acquired under the London County Council (General Powers) Act of 1898. The Room was part of an inn that was probably rebuilt while King James I's first-born son, Henry (d.1612), was Prince of Wales. To mark its alteration the establishment seems to have changed its name to The Prince's Arms.

Location: 17 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AA (orange, purple)

See Also: INNS & TAVERNS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT The London County Council

Website: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do-/attractions-museums-entertainment/prince-henrys-room

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The Title of Prince of Wales

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In 1284 the Welsh chieftains approached King Edward I to choose a man born in Wales, who spoke no English, to be their prince. The monarch presented them with his infant son (the future King Edward II) as the first ever Prince of Wales. The future king had been born in Caernarvon Castle and was far too young to be able to say anything intelligible.

See Also: LANGUAGE & SLANG

Website: www.princeofwales.gov.uk https://cadw.gov.wales/visit/places-to-visit/caernarfon-castle

 

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Leighton House

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Leighton House (1864) was built for the painter Lord Leighton both as a home and as a studio. The building's most noted room is its Arab Hall (1877).

Leighton was the first British artist to be ennobled. He enjoyed the distinction of holding the shortest-lived peerage in history. He died in 1896 on the day after he had been made a baron. He had no heir to inherit the title. Four years later the property became a museum.

Location: 12 Holland Park Road, W14 8LZ (purple, brown)

Website: www.rbkc.gov.uk/museums/leighton-house

 

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New Bond Street

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No. 26 New Bond Street

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Lucie Campbell, Fine Jewels occupied the former premises of Tessiers, itself a jewellery business that was on the site from 1856 onwards.

The shop was acquired by Faur Le Page in 2019.

Location: 26 New Bond Street, W1S 2RJ (orange, red)

Website: www.luciecampbell.com

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No. 143 New Bond Street

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No. 143 New Bond Street is a shop that has a fine period front. The words Savory & Moore , a chemist s business, can be discerned above the doorway's lantern.

Location: 143 New Bond Street, W1S 2TP (orange, brown)

 

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The Old Curiosity Shop

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The Old Curiosity Shop dates from 1567. It is the oldest retail shop in England. During the 19thC the premises adopted the name of Charles Dickens's 1841 novel. The building did not have any link to the writer.

Location: 13-14 Portsmouth Street, WC2A 2ES (orange, turquoise)

See Also: CHARLES DICKENS The Old Curiosity Shop; SLUMS & AVENUES Clare Market

 

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Period Houses

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See Also: CHARLES DICKENS The Dickens Museum; HOMELESSNESS The House of St Barnabas-in-Soho; HOUSING; LITERATURE Thomas Carlyle; MUSEUMS The Sir John Soane Museum; REFERENCE WORKS Dr Johnson's House; TOWNHOUSES

 

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Period Rooms

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See Also: HALLS; HERITAGE Mislaid London; HOSPITALS The Old Operating Theatre; MUSEUMS The Museum of The Home; NON-WEST END THEATRES Lyric Theatre Hammersmith

 

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Period Shops

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See Also: SHOPPING; TEA Twinings

 

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Linley Sambourne House

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Linley Samboune (d.1910) was an illustrator. He bequeathed No. 18 Stafford Terrace to his son Roy who never redecorated the property. Eventually, it passed to Roy Sambourne's niece Anne. She, along with John Betjeman, was one of the founders of the Victorian Society, an organisation that sought to promote an appreciation of Victorian art and design during an era in which both were deeply unfashionable. In 1979 the Greater London Council (the G.L.C.) bought the house. The building is now owned by Kensington & Chelsea Borough. It is administered by the Society.

Location: 18 Stafford Terrace, W8 7BH (orange, orange)

See Also: ILLUSTRATION & GRAPHIC DESIGN Linley Sambourne

Website: www.rbkc.gov.uk/museums/sambourne-house www.victoriansociety.org.uk (The Victorian Society)

 

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The Spitalfields Trust

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In 1977 the founders of the Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust included the architectural writers Colin Amery (1944-2018), Dan Cruickshank, and Mark Girouard.

Location: 18 Folgate Street, E1 6BX (blue, yellow)

See Also: THE EAST END

Website: www.thespitalfieldstrust.com

 

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Timber-Framed Buildings

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See Also: THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON The Fire, Surviving Churches; HERITAGE Harmondsworth Great Barn; PUBS

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The Hoop & Grapes

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The foundations of The Hoop & Grapes pub, in Aldgate High Street, date from the 13thC. The building is the only surviving 17thC timber-framed structure of its kind in the City of London. In the wake of the Great Fire of 1666, building legislation was introduced that barred the use of the construction technique.

Location: 47 Aldgate High Street, EC3N 1AL (purple, red)

See Also: DEVELOPMENTS Queen Anne's Gate, The Queen Anne Architectural Style

Website: www.nicholsons.co.uk/restaurants/london/thehoopandgrapesaldgatelondon

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The Lamb & Flag

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The Lamb & Flag pub is a wooden-framed building dating from 1623. The building's exterior is Georgian.

Location: 33 Rose Street, WC2E 9EB (orange, orange)

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The Olde Shades

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The Olde Shades wine house in Martin Lane was probably built in the early 1660s. It survived the Great Fire.

Location: 6 Martin Lane, EC4R 0DP (purple, brown)

Website: www.davy.co.uk/wine-bar/the-olde-wine-shades

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25 Tanners Hill

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Witcomb Cycles was housed in a building that is one of the oldest timber frame buildings in London. The shop closed in 2009.

Location: 25 Tanners Hill, Deptford, SE8 4PJ

Website: http://witcombcycles.co.uk

 

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The Water House Room

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Thames Water's Sadler's Wells headquarters, New River House, contains a room from the Water House of 1693.

Location: New River House, 173 Rosebery Avenue, Sadler's Wells, EC1R 4UL (blue, turquoise)

See Also: WATER SUPPLY The New River Company

Website: www.newriverhead.co.uk

 

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Woburn Walk

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Woburn Walk (1822) is a pedestrianised street that is lined by small shops that have bow windows.

Location: Woburn Walk, WC1H 0JL (orange, brown)

See Also: ESTATES The Bedford Estates; SHOPPING Pedestrianised Shopping Streets

Website: www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol21/pt3/p106

David Backhouse 2024