3-101-132 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London"/Heritage Images

Ashburnham House - The Ante Room, c1882. Seventeenth-century house on Little Dean's Yard in Westminster, London. 'The uppermost landing of the staircase gives direct access to the Dining Room and to the Ante-Room, which by way of a beautiful doorway communicates with the Drawing Room. The latter has a very rich ceiling of Jones's work, formerly, as shown by Sir John Soane's drawing (of about 1812), surmounted by a small oval dome or lantern, removed no doubt, when the upper storey was added to the building.' Description by Alfred Marks. Ashburnham House is now part of Westminster School.