Description:The image above shows an extract from a document entitled ‘Queries to be submitted to the Marquis of Stafford relative to the completion of York House’. The document details work which was outstanding on the incomplete York House at the time which the Marquis of Stafford purchased the lease on the property. The volume lists the work which was required to complete with house and includes annotations by George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758-1833) the Marquis of Stafford, directing how the work should be undertaken.
The document tells us that the Housekeeper’s Room was almost complete but required the Marquis of Stafford’s direction whether it should ‘be completed as in progress with respect to plain plastering & painting’, and if it should be fitted with presses for linen.
The document also refers to enlargements to the fireplace in the ‘Still Room’, and work on the ‘Butler’s Pantry and Strong Room for Plate’.
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