The back room on the same floor has also a good decorative plaster ceiling (Plate 92), and a white marble chimney piece with buff mottled marble lining and panelled pilasters (Plate 91).
The front room on the first floor has a chimneypiece of white marble, and the ceiling an ornamental centre and border.
The rear room contains a white marble chimneypiece with a sculptured central panel representing Britannia and Commerce. The ceiling is elaborately treated in ornamental plaster work (Plate 92).
Condition of repair.
The premises are in good repair.
Biographical notes.
The occupants of this house, according to the ratebooks, were:
| 1780–92. | Sir John Skinner. |
| 1792–95. | Jas. Jackson. |
| 1796–99. | Mrs. Jackson. |
| 1799– | Mr. Justice Le Blanc. |
Sir Simon Le Blanc was born about 1748, and was called to the Bar in 1773. In course of time he acquired considerable practice, and in 1787 was called to the degree of serjeant-at-law. In 1799 he was appointed puisne judge of the King’s bench, and was knighted. He had a great reputation as a lawyer, and was regarded as an exceptionally able judge. He died in his house in Bedford Square in 1816[[749]].