Number 13 Mansfield Street (previously number 7) is on the west side of the street, and the penultimate house at the northern end. It was built for the mason John Deval (ND), who is unknown, but who was a subscriber to Wolfe and Gandon's fourth volume of Vitruvius Britannicus (1767).

In 1774 the lease was purchased by Robert Burdett Esq, who paid a rent of £300 for that year. Burdett is unknown, but it is possible that he was Sir Robert Burdett, 4th Baronet (1716-97) of Bramcote, Warwickshire, who served as MP for Tamworth in 1748-68. Burdett retained the lease for only one year, whereupon it was acquired by a lady called Mary Griffith.

Number 13 is one of the surviving houses, and bears a blue plaque to indicate that John Loughborough Pearson and Sir Edwin Lutyens both lived and died there in 1881-97 and 1919-44 respectively. Unfortunately, little of the Lutyens interiors survive, but Adam's two drawing room ceilings and the stairwell ornamentation do remain in situ. It remains a private residence, and there is currently a proposal to develop the house and its neighbour at number 11 into a single private dwelling.

Literature:
See Mansfield Street scheme notes.

Frances Sands, 2013

Sub-scheme

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