2-982-450 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Dyott's House, St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, [in London], 1858. 'Dyott's house was the mansion of Richard Dyott, Esq., a vestryman of St. Giles's parish in the time of Charles II., and was inhabited near our time by his descendant, Philip Dyott, Esq. Mr. Richard Dyott - or, as some chronicles have it, Sir Thomas Dyott - devised large property - namely, Dyott-street (now George-street) and other streets in the neighbourhood - for the purpose of "providing decent dwellings for labouring men." Out of these very streets was framed the Rookery...Dyott's house may now be visited without much inconvenience, and is worth the inspection of those who feel a curiosity in the domestic architecture of old London. The walls are of rich purple brick; the roof is of a high pitch, and composed of small tiles; the staircase has panels and other ornaments on the walls, and the balustrades are of massive carved work. The narrow street leading from the corner of Dyott's house, westward, is all that remains of the old "Rookery" of St. Giles's'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.