Ely Place
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Ely Place is a gated road of multi-storey terraces at the southern tip of the London Borough of Camden in London, England. It hosts a 1773-rebuilt public house, Ye Olde Mitre, of Tudor origin and is a
The beadles' gatehouse
Reconstruction of Ely Place in the sixteenth century by Henry William Brewer
Townhouse (Great Britain)
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In British usage, the term townhouse originally referred to the opulent town or city residence of a member of the nobility or gentry, as opposed to their country seat, generally known as a country hou
Ely Place
…Place, with only the bishop's medieval chapel being preserved. Ely Place stands on land that had been the site of Ely Palace or Ely House, the London townhouse of the Bishops of Ely from 1290 to 1772. Land in the Holborn area was bought by John de Kirkby in 1280. He was appointed Bishop of Ely in 1286 and on…
Spencer House in St James's, London, one of the last surviving true townhouses still owned by the noble family that built it, the Spencers, although it is now generally leased out commercially. The corresponding country house is Althorp in Northamptonshire.
Northumberland House by Canaletto, 1752. The Strand front of Northumberland House, the townhouse of the Dukes of Northumberland. Note the "Percy Lion" atop the central façade.
Devonshire House, Piccadilly, in 1896
Leicester House on Leicester Fields, 1748