9&11 Duke Street, London

AHP’s historical report on 9-11 Duke Street was an appraisal – using historical sources, plans and still-extant detail – of two London houses built in the late 1770s.

Modest buildings are invariably harder to research, simply because their construction was not reported in the architectural press or subject to the same standard of record-keeping as public buildings. Therefore AHP relied on a combination of in-house expertise and Georgian house plan literature to provide a reasoned assessment of the buildings’ history and development.

The conclusion to AHP’s report was, effectively, a scholarly debate based on the evidence provided by historic plans and surviving fabric. Numbers 9-11 showed the sort of minor alteration expected in buildings initially built as residential accommodation but which were in combined commercial/residential use from an early date. The buildings also contained some unusual plan features that bore comparison to houses in nearby Goodge Place and the east side of Baker Street.

Public

Highgate School, north London ›

Commercial

Former courthouse, Lytham, Lancs ›

Town

54-56 Cadogan Square, London W1 ›

Industrial

Pagefield Cotton Mill, Wigan ›

Country

Somerford Booths Hall, Cheshire ›