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The earlier building, also called the Red Lion, can be traced back to at least the 1780s and was positioned on the southern part of the site now occupied by the present pub.
Bolton suggested that the undated scheme formed part of a proposal for a new house on the site of the inn, but the plans may also be read as designs for alterations and extensions to the public house.
SM Adam volume 7/152 records the neighbouring property as a stable block belonging to a Mr Hall. The plan also notes the ‘Through fair to Hyde Park Lane’.
Literature:
A.T. Bolton, The architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 45; F. H. W. Sheppard (ed.), ‘Duke of York Street’, Survey of London: Volumes 29 and 30, St James Westminster, Part 1, 1960, pp. 285-287; Ralph Rylance, The Epicure’s Almanack: Eating and Drinking in Regency London, Janet Ing Freeman (ed.), 2013
Anna McAlaney, 2021
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).