Note 25b — MANOR-HOUSE BATHS AND GARDENS, CHELSEA
Reading edition
About 1809 the Manor-House had been occupied by James Pilton, manufacturer of ornamental works for country residences (fences, summer-houses, etc.), and the grounds were neatly laid out as an open-air showroom, with a small menagerie and aviaries. A view of the garden and house from the Gentleman’s Magazine is here reproduced. See also Faulkner’s Chelsea, 1829, ii., p. 215.