In the Council’s collection are:—
[[738]]No. 23, Bedford Square. Doors and doorcase in front room on ground floor (photograph).
No. 24, Bedford Square. Entrance doorway (photograph).
LXXIX.—No. 25, BEDFORD SQUARE.
Ground landlord and lessee.
Ground landlord, His Grace the Duke of Bedford, K.G.; lessee, the Rev. Lewis Gilbertson, M.A., F.S.A.
General description and date of structure.
On 20th November, 1777, a lease[[739]] was granted of a plot of ground with three messuages thereon, on the north side of Bedford Square, being the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth houses eastward from Tottenham Court Road, abutting east upon ground to be built upon, west upon a messuage in Bedford Street (now Bayley Street), and north upon ground belonging to the City of London. The dimensions of the plot are said to be: 99¼ feet on the south, 73 feet on the east, 67½ feet on the west, and 98½ feet on the north, thus corresponding to the sites of Nos. 24 to 27 (four houses) at the present day.
No. 25 is the westernmost house of the northern block included in the design for the square, the two houses adjoining to the west being in harmony with the remaining premises in Bayley Street. The house is of special interest.