A wonderful surprise was had by the new owners of the oldest surviving house in St Martin's Lane, near London's Trafalgar Square. For when they began work on the panelled ceiling of the front room on the first...
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Feb 6th, 2011
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Lichfield House, 15 St James’s Square
A house was built on the site by 1676. In April 1748 it was bought by Admiral Lord Anson from the Earl of Clarendon (who went on to purchase The Grove). In November 1751 Matthew Brettingham, senior, surveyed the...
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Jan 28th, 2011
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Raby Castle
Raby Castle is situated near Staindrop in County Durham and is one of the largest inhabited castles in England. The Grade I listed building has opulent eighteenth and nineteenth century interiors inside a largely...
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Jan 26th, 2011
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Maids of Honour Row, Richmond
Maids of Honour Row is ‘an excellent, entirely uniform, terrace’ of four three story houses each five windows wide with a parapet hiding the roof. They have distinctive pink “rubbed” brick dressings to the...
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Jan 23rd, 2011
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Great Fulford
Great Fulford has been the home of the Fulford family for over 800 years. The history of England is reflected in the story of the family. The careful building up of their fortunes, largely as a result of...
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Dec 29th, 2010
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13 Bedford Row, Bloomsbury
Bedford Row, which lies between Red Lion Street and Gray's Inn, is a broad thoroughfare of the early eighteenth century. It does not derive its name, as might be imagined, from the Russell family, but from the town...
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Dec 28th, 2010
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Sulby Park Farm, Northamptonshire
In 1792 Rene Payne of Welford employed Sir John Soane to design a house on land in the Parish of Sulby. The house, built in the Palladian style in 1793-95, was of two storeys with basement and attics. In 1810,...
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Dec 12th, 2010
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Petersham, Surrey
I was employed to devise a schedule of appropriate paint colours for this 18th century house in Petersham and my company Papers and Paints mixed colours specially for the project. Coincidentally, the house is...
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Dec 12th, 2010
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Pool Orchard, near Coventry
I was asked to carry out an investigation of the paint on the black-painted interior beams of this house near Coventry. It is composed of elements built at different periods. Patrick Baty taking a paint sample...
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Dec 12th, 2010
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Boxted House, Essex
I could scarcely believe it when I received a telephone call from the new owners of Boxted House asking for assistance in the selection of paint colours. The house had previously belonged to my great uncle, Bobby...
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