Thomas Lane of Leyton Grange

Gardens

The Grange

Walthamstow (Essex)

Purchased 23rd Jun 1796 | Occupied 1st Jan 1796 - 1st Jan 1824

Description

Lane purchased The Grange in 1796: his commissioning of Humphry Repton <1809 is shown as inconclusively documented. Gazetteer compiled with John Phibbs’ in Stephen Daniels, Humphry Repton, Landscape Gardening and the Geography of Georgian England (London: Yale University Press 1999) pp. 255-269.

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Further Information

Modified?
Yes
Details of modifications

Landscape gardening c. 1809 [Daniels, 'Humphrey Repton' p. 259] Not clear whether this was executed or merely a report or consultation.  Chapman, 'The Grange' makes no mention of work by Repton.

Architect of modifications
Humphrey Repton
Demolition date
1861