Design for alterations to Felday House, Kensington, by Philip Webb, 1887

A sheet of drawings in ink and coloured wash showing designs for proposed alterations and additions to Felday House. The sheet is signed and dated April 1887. The sheet is marked 'No. 2' and features a front and back elevation, and four sections through different portions of the house marked with letters 'A' to 'D', corresponding to the plans drawn on another sheet (E.143-1916). The elevations show that the entire rear of the house is to be refaced with new brickwork (indicated with red tint). The sections show the new rooms are to be added at the back of the house and in the attic. A note in the upper left corner indicates that a tracing on linen was sent on 12th May 1887.

In 1887 Philip Webb designed additions and alterations to Felday House, 25 Young Street, Kensington Square for Frederick Bowman, the younger son of Sir William Bowman, an opthamologist. Bowman's daughter and her husband lived nearby at 42 Kensington Square, where Webb had designed garden walls the same year. Webb enlarged Felday House by raising the roof and creating rooms in the attic. He also refitted and redecorated parts of the existing house.

E.144-1916