3-101-155 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London"/Heritage Images

Lincoln's Inn Fields - Lindsey House, c1882. 'Lindsey House, sometimes called Ancaster House, after a subsequent owner, is assigned to the year 1640. It was built by Jones for Robert Bertie, Earl of Lindsey, who fell on the King's side at the battle of Edgehill. Hatton, writing in 1708, thus describes the house: '...a handsome Building of the Ionick Order, and a strong beautiful Court Gate, consisting of 6 fine spatious Brick Peers with curious Iron-work..., and on the Peers are placed very large and beautiful vases."...the house has been much altered. The stone front is now plastered and painted, the entrance door has been widened, the windows cut down, and six removed from the balustrade...The house is now divided into two in a singular way, the party wall running up behind the central windows...The house to the south (left) not only of stone but unlike Lindsey House, visibly so, is spoken of by Sir John Soane, writing in 1812...as having been built many years later than Lindsey House. Mr B.E. Martin, in a series of most interesting paper on Dicken's London, has identified No.58, the half of the house nearest to Lindsey House, as that of Tulkinghorn in Bleak House, Scribner's Monthly Magazine, March, 1881, Vol. XXI., p.659.)' Description by Alfred Marks.