[2] Survey drawing of the existing properties to the north-west of the Bank

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- Bank of England
  - Bank of England, City of London for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, 1788-1834 (1356)
    - 1799-1810 Expansions north-west and rebuilding of existing offices (487)
      - Acquiring property for the north-west extension, 1800-1803 (23)

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Reference number

SM 9/3/7

Purpose

[2] Survey drawing of the existing properties to the north-west of the Bank

Aspect

Ground plan as in SM 9/3/7, showing outline of the intended straight Princes Street

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

S^t Margaret's Church, Part of the Bank of England, N^o 25 / Robt Harridon Esq^r / Mess^rs Elliots lease / in 9 Years / Lady day with calculation 1801 and 9 / 1810 / Rent £140 p^r annum, N^o 24, N^o 23 Warehouse / Samuel Hoare Esq^r/ Mess^rs Clive & C^o Lease / 94 Years less 3 days / from 1795 / 1869 Rent Hoare £150 / Royal Exc^ge £150 / I have laid out about 6 or 700 £, Grocers Co / Beadles house, N^o 22 / Bowerbank / Rent £34 / Lease expired / Mich^s 1805, The Crown / Public house / at will / Rent £50, N^o 21 / Tutin / Rent £44, N^o 20 / Rent £50 / Xmas 1814 / £650:0:0, N^o 19 / JR Anderson Esqr / Rent £44 / Lady day 1806 / Agree^t for 7 / 1813 / £780:0:0, N^o 18 / Rent £42 / at will / M^r Williams, Meek / N^o17 / Rent £44 / Lady day 1808, N^o 23 / Davies / Rent £54 / Mids 1816 / £974:0:0, N^o 22 / Clarkson / 1780 / 21 / Lady 1801 / £4 per annum / Rep £100 / at will, N^o 21 / Sharp / 1784 / Mich 22¼ / 1806 ¼ / 19 & 21 / £30, Blown (sic, Brown) / Repr £300 £16 Rent / 1745 / 61 / 1806, N^o 20, N^o 19 / Garsatt (sic, Garrett) / 1784 / 22¼ / 1806¼ / 21 & 19 £30 / £300 rep, Expires / Mich^s1806, Drapers Court, N^o 18 / M^rs Lee / £25 / 1778 / 21 / 1799 / at will, N^o 17 / Leader / Rent £18 / Rep 100 / 1800 / 14 / 1814, Lothbury, N^o 16 / Jackson / Rent £18 / 1792 / 14 Mids 1806 / Rep £96, N^o 15 Lansum Xmas 1802 £200, N^o 15 / Lansum / Rent £18 / 1792 / 14 / Mid 1806, N^o 14 with Collingridge in pencil, N^o 13 / Hyde / Rent £42 / Yearly Tennant, N^o 12 / Greaves / Rent £33 / Lease exp^d/ Xmas 1814 / £780:0:0, N^o 11 / Gleadhill / Rent £41, N^o 10 / Bottsaw / Rent £42 / Lease exp^d / 1808 / £150:0:0, N^o 9 / M^rGeo Smith, Court / to N^o 9, N^o 8 / Roberts / £40 Rent / Yearly Rent, N^o 7 / Yeather'd / £36 Rent / Lease exp^d/ 1816 / with Aug^t 1807 in pencil, Burchalls / Warehouses / and house, Court N^o 9, N^o 9, N^o 6 / Kendall, (S^t Margarets'), Court to N^o 5, Read and Clements / N^o 4 N^o 3 / Sir Char^sMid, Court, Sir Char^s Mid(Middleton) / Burchalls / Warehouse, Meeting house, Meeting house Court, with April 1807 in feint pencil, N^o 2 / Lappan / (S^t Olave old Jewry), N^o 1 / Bassatt, Warehouse / to / N^o 21, Court / Norris, Covered / Passage, N^o 30 / Ranson / Tobacconist, N^o 19 / Lancaster, Passage to / Meeting, Bowling / N^o 18, Dwelling / house / belonging to / the Meeting

Signed and dated

March 31^st1808

Medium and dimensions

Pen and watercolour, within single ruled was border, on wove paper (532 x 708)

Hand

Soane office and Soane

Watermark

J Whatman 1804

Notes

This drawing, SM 9/3/9, SM 9/3/11 and SM 9/3/6 trace the purchase of the properties for the north-west expansion. The drawing is a copy of SM 9/3/9 but executed between 1804 and 1808. It has the same inscriptions as SM 9/3/9 but also has additional inscriptions indicating offers on six holdings. These six holdings, in addition to number 15 Lothbury Street, are shown again in SM 9/3/6. Soane and the Bank directors refused to accomodate the occupants' 'exorbitant terms' (see SM 9/2/9) for quitting the premises and the Tivoli Corner was therefore not erected until 1807, after construction had begun on the rest of the screen wall.

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Drawing

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