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London: 11 Bruton Street, Westminster: designs for alterations for the Dowager Countess of Portsmouth, 1802 (3)

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Soane carried out only a limited amount of work at 11 Bruton Street for the Dowager Countess of Portsmouth, judging from his bill of £10.3.0. She had moved out to 44 Harley Street by 1806. Three drawings - two surveys and one design for alterations - survive, as well as a survey drawing in the Soane Museum Archives (MBii/17). They show a three-bay town house with stables to the rear which does not survive today.

Literature:
P. Dean, Sir John Soane and London, 2006, pp. 192-3.

Tom Drysdale, July 2015

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