Scale
bar scale
Inscribed
as above, Part of the Bank of England, St Margarets Church and Mr Marship, Lease beside some houses, Tokenhouse Yard, Lothbury, (pencil, different hand) a lease rate on each house
Signed and dated
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, and grey and yellow washes, on wove paper (677 x 322)
Hand
Soane office
Watermark
(sheet trimmed) US 1806
Notes
In February 1799 the Bank purchased Lord Lansdowne's property in Tokenhouse Yard. The Bank paid £12,000, the price at which George Dance had valued the property for Lord Lansdowne. The property consisted of one street lined with 21 houses and a warehouse. The houses on the east side were of better quality, with courtyards and brick walls before them. All of the buildings had been erected immediately after the Great Fire. Before altering Princes Street for its north-west expansion, the Bank had little opportunity to expand; its buildings had expanded to the boundaries of the encompassing streets. Tokenhouse Yard was initially purchased as extra office space for the Bank. The extra office space was of course not necessary after Soane secured permission to alter Princes Street and expand the Bank to the north-west. The properties were leased out until September 1824 when they were sold to Mr Lewis Loyd for £14,000.
Literature
M. Acres, The Bank of England from within, Oxford, 1931. pp. 396-7
Level
Drawing
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