1782-c1783 Cambuslang, This could refer to Cambuslang Parish or Cambuslang Farm
?1783-c1785 Mid Calder
Kerse Hall (aka Kerse Hill but Kersehill Falkirk was 20 miles to the west)
1797-1800 Uncle in Edinburgh [There was a Mrs Sommers in 4 Charlotte Square in 1797 & 30 George St in another directory & there are 5 Sommers 1794 in the Directory for Edinburgh Leith Mussleburgh. Could Jane have muddled an uncle with an aunt? Or was his uncle James Sommers, writer (solicitors in Scotland were previously known as "writers";), who lived in 30 George Street in 1794. Maybe he was the uncle and he died soon after JCL moved in. If so, TT’s story needs to change a little. A James Sommers died at Carsebrook in Stirlingshire in 1797. Kersebrock Farm is a farm in Falkirk, Stirlingshire?]
1800-1803 No. 7. Terrace, Leith Street, Edinburgh, they may be seen and examined by any gentleman who shall take the trouble of calling. Note No.7 Terrace is in The Edinburgh Directory, from July 1797 to July 1798 as the address of Mrs Dickson (spelt with a long ‘s’ Dickfon). Mr. Mawer died before his pupil was sixteen; and for three or four years afterwards Mr. Loudon resided with Mr. Dickson, a nurseryman and planner in Leith Walk. Mr Nichol was a nurseryman/author and a friend. [The west side of Leith Street (demolished in 1965 to make way for the St James Centre) was known as Leith Street Terrace, and featured a pedestrian walkway/ terrace at first storey level, providing access to an upper tier of shops. The basis of this scheme was a design by Robert Adam in 1786; that which was built was a simplified version of Adam's designs (amended possibly by James Salisbury).] [[The plan in this (Kirkwood map 1817) very useful pdf shows Dicksons Nurseries adjoining Leith Walk. Broughton Park was where Claremont Terrace [TT suspects this is Claremont Crescent] and Bellevue Street were erected. But a directory says it was south of Bonnington Road . TT thinks it’s marked Mr Donaldson’s on the Ainslie map: the nursery is south of Broughton Hall and centred on Bellevue Street, which you can see using the slider on this NLS/Ainslie map]
1803- 1804 No. 4 Chapel Street (now Rugby Street) Bedford-row, his lodgings in London. The house does not survive. There is a No 4 Rugby Street which looks as though it was built soon after the demolition of St John's Chapel, Bedford Row in 1863.
1804-1806 90 Newman Street, London. The house does not survive. No 92, adjoining it to the north, is a Malaysian restaurant (Laksamania). No 90 is believed to be in mixed office and residential use.
1808-1811 Great Tew Farm. The site is what is now woodland scrub. Nothing of Loudon's farm house can be seen but it is likely that the foundations survive.
42 Pall Mall, London (1811-16), The current building at 42 Pall Mall in London was built in the post-war period, specifically between 1956-1958. It was designed as an office block by Duke & Simpson, with Donald McMorran as the consulting architect for the exterior. This building replaced the Carlton Club, which had been destroyed during World War II bombing. McMorran's design followed a sophisticated neo-classical style, meant to harmonize with the Italianate palazzi that characterize the surrounding area on Pall Mall.
1816-1824 Hermitage Bayswater (Hermitage St runs N>S north of Paddington Basin (1816), Note that there was a Hermitage House in Linden Road Gravel Pits Kensington aka the Hermitage, Linden Grove [Note that in JCL’s 1818 article in the Gentleman’s Magazine he says Bayswater House (his address) was at the point where Bayswater Brook (aka the Westbourne River) enters Hyde Park (ie at Lancaster Gate, east of Porchester Terrace)].
1824-43 3 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater The first and only property he owned was probably Porchester Terrace and there’s no way of knowing how much of the buildings in Chapel St, Newman St and Pall Mall he rented. TT’s guess is only a room in the first two but more in Pall Mall because he was employing draughtsmen to work on the Encyclopedia. So who did his cooking? I suppose it was like a b&b. [Lots of photos of interior etc in LMA London Picture Archive researcher] [The Linnean Society record on JCL says the amputation was 1825]
