Thomas Leverton

He was born in Waltham Abbey, Essex, where he was baptised on 11 June 1743,[1] the son of the builder Lancelot Leverton.

In 1780 he designed Plaistow Lodge (now Quernmore School) for Peter Thellusson at Bromley, Kent in a style suggestive of Adams.

His domed refit of Scampston Hall near Malton, Yorkshire (1803), reflected the work of Wyatt.

[2] He has sometimes been credited with the design of Bedford Square in London: while this is uncertain some of the individual houses are attributed to him,[3] and interiors, including those at No 13, where he lived from 1795.

Describing his work at Woodhall Park, Nikolaus Pevsner said that Leverton's interiors "have a style, decidedly their own, different from Adam's or Chambers's or Hollands's" their character coming out most clearly in the central staircase hallway, "profusely but very delicately decorated with plaster à la antique".

[5] A brick building with stone facings (including a rusticated basement level and Tuscan pilasters),[6] it was described in a contemporary account as "though not a splendid fabric ... well adapted to its enclosed situation.