The Duke of Monmouth obtained a site on the south side of Soho Square (then called King’s Square) in 1681 on which the house was built. After his execution it was owned by the Bateman family and became the residence for successive French Ambassadors, before being demolished.
has a good page on this house.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Monmouth House
A.D. MMIX This building stands on the site of the former coach-house of Monmo...
The photograph appears under Stoke Newington Manor House on the Hackney Plaques and Local History website. There is no further explanation. Maybe it shows excavations at the site.
Karl Marx lived here for the last 15 years of his life. London Picture Archive date this photo 1935 so perhaps it was taken to show the plaque, newly erected. Getty Images have another, 1958, pho...
Member of the Chelsea Vestry Hall Building Committee in 1885. From British History Online: "Lord Cadogan extended the line of Tite Street north of Royal Hospital Road and leased land on the east s...
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Architect and surveyor. Churchwarden of St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe. He and his sons, Banister Flight Fletcher and Herbert Phillips Fletcher, formed the architectural practice: Banister Fletcher &...
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