8, South Audley Street W1

Auction and sale notices record a formal ground- and first-floor plan centred on an entrance hall, inner hall, and principal stair leading to a reception suite, with extensive family accommodation and service rooms behind. In 1876, particulars listed a suite of reception rooms, eighteen bed- and dressing-rooms, ample domestic offices, and—within the same holding—an ancillary Hill Street cottage and extensive stabling and coach-house premises. By 1896 (Alington House), the first-floor entertaining suite comprised a ballroom (about 35×29 ft), drawing room (c. 36×21 ft), a long conservatory (nearly 50 ft) opening to a winter garden, a boudoir, and two further large sitting rooms. The ground…