The Lost Mansions of MayfairInternationally renowned, Mayfair is comprised principally of the important estates of the Grosvenors and Berkeleys. It has always been an area where the affluent resided. This work is the first to catalogue in detail the architectural losses of this area. It provides detailed descriptions in text, photographs and drawings, building on the work of the Survey of London in providing such a record. Though describing the losses, it also contains an appendix of the best of the survivors for the reader to see in Mayfair or in nearby Marylebone. Owners, key artisans and, of course, architects are listed. Fully indexed. |
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12 Grosvenor Square 18th-century 25 Park Lane Adam Aldford alterations architect architectural Baillie balcony bays Bedford Lemere Berkeley Square Bond Street brick Brook Street Builder Buildings of England built Burlington House Burlington Street Camelford ceiling century Chapel Chesterfield House Club corner decorated demolished demolition described designed Devonshire House Dover Street drawing room Earl early entrance Estate in Mayfair Extant building façade gallery garden George Georgian Grafton Street Grosvenor Estate Grosvenor House Grosvenor Square ground floor hall Hamilton Place Hanover Square Hotel Illustration interior Lady Lansdowne House later lease London Houses Lord mansion Nikolaus Pevsner North of Piccadilly original Oxford Street Palladian Park Lane Park Street Philip photograph Piccadilly Private Palaces rebuilt redevelopment Regent Street remodelled residence Richardson Robert Royal Savile Row Seamore Place seen Sir John Soane Soane's St James staircase storey Stratton Street stucco Survey of London survives Swallow Street Walford wrote Wyatt