Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Robert Adam took his seat as a Member 1 Dowhill Castle still remains and may be seen upon an eminence close to BarnsHouse, Blair-Adam, at no great distance from the foot of Benarty Hill. BUILDING THE ADELPHI 223 of Parliament, the brothers agreed to lease Durham Yard, thesubsequent site of the Adelphi Buildings,1 at a yearly ground rent of.£1,200. The agreement to lease the property was made with theDuke of St Albans, the ground landlord. Although it was arrangedthat the duration ofthe
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Robert Adam took his seat as a Member 1 Dowhill Castle still remains and may be seen upon an eminence close to BarnsHouse, Blair-Adam, at no great distance from the foot of Benarty Hill. BUILDING THE ADELPHI 223 of Parliament, the brothers agreed to lease Durham Yard, thesubsequent site of the Adelphi Buildings,1 at a yearly ground rent of.£1,200. The agreement to lease the property was made with theDuke of St Albans, the ground landlord. Although it was arrangedthat the duration ofthe lease should beninety-nine yearsfrom Ladyday 1768,the document wasnot signed until the23rd June 1769,almost a year afterbuilding operationshad been com-menced. It is re-corded, in fact, uponthe illustration ofthe Adelphi Build-ings,2 in the thirdvolume of the Works, that thisundertaking wascommenced in July1768. When thebrothers purchasedthe site, it was an unwholesome quar-ry u r ? Fie;. 165.—The Royal Terrace, Adelphi. (Fromter full of ruinous b J ,, ,. ti^ r T , .,. Malton s lour or London. ). The site was formerly occupied by old Durham House and from this the nameof Durham Yard originated. Regarding this district, consult The Adelphi and its Site,by Henry B. Wheatley, , London, 1885, and also The Literary History of theAdelphi and its neighbourhood, by Austin Brereton, London, 1907. 2 The place-name Adelphi, derived from the Greek d8eA<£ot—brothers, was adoptedby the Architects, who also called the streets after their Christian names. 224 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM hovels which sloped down sharply to the river, where the banks of mudsuffused the air with foul gas and noxious fumes. Yet the brothersconceived a scheme which, they believed, would overcome all thesedefects and render the slum a salubrious residential quarter of unrivalledcharacter. In order to overcome the disadvantage of building on aninclination, and of erecting houses so clo
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