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Besides many other Bills mislaid or lost. The totall which [ find summd 
up from particulars not to be found amounts to £739 13s. od. 
Repairs of Vicaridge Barn to Carpenter... . £18 10 0 
Paleing to my garden and yard sac fe <<) AOL O 
For making my garden— 
For Workmanship . PO. L2o 
For Turf, Gravel, Sand, Seeds, Trees, and 
Setting and Laying ... so. 4200-6 
In 1692, the making of my garden and the tones of that and the yard stood me 
in 4114 9g of, 
In this year the building the base of my house and the brick wall to the street 
stood me in £653 0 o. 
1693. In this year the finishing of my house stood me in £315 os. od. The 
repairs of my Barn and Stables in £28. 
1700. May. Altering the chimney in the little parlour £00 07 4. 
1718. Nov. 12. P* to John Finch of Deptford for clay for raising my kitchen 
pavemt Zo1 05 0. 
1719. Sept. To Mr. Gilham, for wainscotting my Study below stairs 
#04 06 o. For other repairs and improvements £06 03 0. 
1723. Memorand. That my wife did out of her allowance for the year 1723 
pay to the Bills of Bricklayers, Carpenters &c., for the repairs and 
improvements of my Vicarage House at Lewisham more than 
£70 0 9. 
The house thus erected by Dr. Stanhope in 1692 remained 
without any material alteration until 1879, when the Rev. the Hon. 
A. Legge, on his appointment as Vicar, caused it to be renovated, 
and added a drawing-room and other apartments on the garden 
side. The Rev. Samuel Bickersteth, during his Vicariate, added 
the wing on the left hand side of the house, which was built largely 
of bricks from Lewisham House, then being pulled down. 
Lewisham House, which stood at the opposite corner of 
Ladywell Road, was a large red brick mansion, built or rebuilt in 
1680, if we may judge from the date on one of the leaden water 
heads. This waterhead also bore the initials of I.L.A., those of 
Sir John Lethuillier and Anne, his wife, daughter of Sir Wm. Hooker, 
who is the lady referred to by Pepys, in 1665, as “ Our noble fat 
brave lady in our parish, that I and my wife admire so. 
The house must originally have been a fine specimen of the 
domestic architecture of its day, but had been considerably altered 
in appearance, and completely spoilt by the substitution of modern 
windows, and by being covered with cement. The entrance doors 
led into a well-proportioned hall, but the interior had been so much 
modernized, that except in the upper rooms little remained of the 
_ original fittings. Behind a modern mantelpiece in one of the lower 
rooms was discovered the remains of a good fireplace which had 
the appearance of being Elizabethan work, and suggested that the 
house had been enlarged, rather than rebuilt, by Sir John Lethuillier. 
His great grandson, John Greene Lethuillier, sold it in 1776 to Mr. 
Sclater, of Rotherhithe. It was subsequently for a time divided 
into two, but was purchased in 1812 from Mr. William Curling by 
Mr. Thomas Watson Parker, whose son, Mr. George Parker, lived 
there until his death in 1889, filling the role of village Squire, and, 
with his wife, a generous benefactor to the poor of the parish. 
