43 Oakley Street, SW3
TQ 2560 7760; (Ken Sabel and Denise Mulligan); historic building recording and watching brief; 12 July - 14 July 2004 and 11 November 2004 - 27 January 2005; Peter Wood & Partners; OKY04
Natural gravels were recorded at 5.44m OD.
A group of 16th to 17th century boundary walls of the manors that stood in the area were recorded in advance of conservation works. Natural gravels were truncated by a series of 18th and 19th-c features. The earliest one was a pit dated from 1710 to 1750 which could not be fully excavated, it was truncated to the north by a circular structure constructed re-using Tudor brick, Flemish floor tile and roof tiles. The structure is believed to have been an icehouse and extended beyond the boundaries of the site. It has been dated early to mid 18th-c. A large late 18th to early 19th-c pit cut into the natural and is believed to have been for gravel extraction and to have extended beyond the northern boundary of the site. The natural sand and gravel and the features were sealed by garden soil.
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