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Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis)
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Reference number
SM D5/1/3
Purpose
Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis)
Aspect
[2] Plan of second floor and showing the floor joists of the front room of No.42
Scale
¼ in to 1ft
Inscribed
Two Pair Floor / Three pair, or Attics the same Plan
Signed and dated
- 1805-12
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pink and raw umber washes, pencil pricked for transfer on laid paper (470 x 650)
Hand
Dance
Notes
[SM D5/1/4] and [SM D5/1/3] show adjacent houses. Each has a front door with a window either side and with a blind window fronting the party wall; No.41, the left-hand (eastern) house has three rooms and a half-turn stair. The combined frontage is 84 feet 8 inches with (left-hand house) a depth of 54 feet 4 inches. Minor alterations are proposed on [SM D5/1/4] including a refacing of the front elevation with small adjustments to the openings.
No.41, with basement, three floors and attics, 'dated from about the end of 1724, when it replaced a house destroyed by fire earlier that year' (Stroud p.193). The ratebooks show the Royal College of Surgeons at No.41 from 1797, Mr William Baldwin having lived there from 1786-96; No.42 was bought in 1803, Mr Robert Jenner having been the previous occupant from 1791. He was preceded by, for example, the Child family (1704-67), the house being rebuilt in, probably, 1703 (Survey of London, St Giles-in-the-fields, Part 1 (Lincoln's Inn Fields), III, 1912, pp.50-3).
No.41, with basement, three floors and attics, 'dated from about the end of 1724, when it replaced a house destroyed by fire earlier that year' (Stroud p.193). The ratebooks show the Royal College of Surgeons at No.41 from 1797, Mr William Baldwin having lived there from 1786-96; No.42 was bought in 1803, Mr Robert Jenner having been the previous occupant from 1791. He was preceded by, for example, the Child family (1704-67), the house being rebuilt in, probably, 1703 (Survey of London, St Giles-in-the-fields, Part 1 (Lincoln's Inn Fields), III, 1912, pp.50-3).
Level
Drawing
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