Lindsey House And Attached Railings, Piers And Lamp Brackets

Lindsey House is a historic house located in Lincoln's Inn Fields, built between 1638 and 1641. It underwent alterations by Isaac Ware to create two houses in 1751-1752, with further changes made in the 20th century. The exterior features a stuccoed front that is partly painted, with a rusticated ground floor. The building has three storeys, a basement, and a 20th-century attic with dormers, and it includes five windows.

The entrances are coupled and adorned with enriched consoles, a pulvinated frieze, and a cornice. The patterned arched fanlights above the doors add to its decorative appeal. The windows on the first floor have architraves, with the central window featuring a pulvinated frieze and a pedimented cornice, supported by consoles and a broken segmental pediment that includes a panel and festoon. Ionic pilasters are present between the windows on the first and second floors and on the flanks of the building. The entablature includes a pulvinated frieze, a modillion cornice, and a balustraded parapet.

Internally, no original features remain. However, No. 59 has a staircase with moulded balusters and carved ends in oak, while No. 60 features a stone staircase with 19th-century wrought-iron scroll-topped square balusters.

The property also includes subsidiary features such as rusticated red brick piers that flank the entrance to a combined forecourt, topped with carved stone terminals. These piers are connected to the house by a plain brick buttressed wall. Additionally, there are cast-iron railings along the parapet wall at the front, complemented by wrought-iron lamp brackets.

Historically, Lindsey House was built as the centerpiece of 'Arch Row' for the gentleman-speculator William Newton. It has been attributed to several architects, including Inigo Jones, John Webb, Peter Mills, and Nicholas Stone. Sir John Summerson described it as "perhaps, historically, the most important single house in London," as it served as a model for the development of London over the following two centuries. The wall surface between the piers was originally made of red brick.