Designed by George Richardson and perhaps made by the Linnels for Lord Scarsdale’s London townhouse, 41-2 Portman Square, this was an interesting project, for the bulk of the chimney-piece was timber, but the ornament on the frieze was made from composition. This is an early example of its use but was a material promoted by Richardson. The chimney-piece had been overpainted but was originally gilded in part. We had to replace a number of losses, including one of the oval socles at the base of the fluted, oval columns. The internal architrave had been lost but was re-constructed using examples from designs published by Richardson within his A New Collection of Chimney-pieces, ornamented in the style of The Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Architecture, 1781. The chimney-piece has been installed with a Portland stone hearth and veined marble slab.