Robert Adam’s London

The iconic eighteenth-century architect Robert Adam was based in London for more than half of his life and made more designs for this one city than anywhere else in the world. This book reviews a wide variety of his designs for London, highlighting lesser-known buildings as well as familiar ones. Each of Adam’s projects explored in this book is plotted on Horwood’s map of London (1792-99), enabling the reader to recognise Adam’s work as they move around the city, as well as to envisage London as if more of his ingenious designs had been executed or survived demolition.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Map of London

Introduction

Whitehall

Westminster Abbey – funerary monuments

Northumberland House, Strand

The Adelphi

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Charing Cross

King’s Bench Prison, Southwark

Lloyd’s Coffee House, Cornhill

Aldersgate Street

Lincoln’s Inn

Southampton Row

Soho Square

Charlotte Street

Mansfield Street and New Cavendish Street

Portland Place

Clerk House, Duchess Street

Chandos House, Queen Anne Street

Portman Square

Grosvenor Square

Hill Street

Berkeley Square

Curzon Street

Hertford Street

Lock Hospital, Grosvenor Place

Buckingham House

Piccadilly

Deputy Ranger’s Lodge, Green Park

Arlington Street

Dover Street

Pall Mall

Haymarket Opera House

St James’s Square
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