Catalogue description Middlesex: Twickenham (now in London Borough of Richmond). [Orleans House estate]. Plan...

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Details of MPE 1/480
Reference: MPE 1/480
Description:

Middlesex: Twickenham (now in London Borough of Richmond). [Orleans House estate]. Plan of two parcels of land belonging to 'Secretary Johnson', one containing a mansion house with 'a Large Octagon Room', the other 'Formally call'd Broom Close', adjacent to the River Thames. Compass rose. Surveyor's note gives names of landowners and rents.

Date: 30 Oct 1736
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: LRRO 1/521
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Dimensions: 44.5 cm x 63.8 cm
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860 (London, 1967), entry 1374

Administrative / biographical background:

Orleans House was designed by the architect John James for James Johnson, Secretary of State under Queen Anne. The octagon room, designed by James Gibbs, was added c 1720.

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