Catalogue description Middlesex: Twickenham (now in London Borough of Richmond). [Orleans House estate]. Plan...
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Reference: | MPE 1/480 |
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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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