“…at the middle of the north side [of Leicester Square] is Savile House, at which exhibitions of various kinds have taken place, including Miss Linwood's curious needlework imitating pictures that pleased our mothers and grandmothers so much. It had been the residence of Sir George Savile, whose books, paintings, and furniture were burned in the square by the rioters of 1780” (327-8).

“ “… Walpole tells us that Frederick, Prince of Wales added to Leicester House the mansion westward - Savile House - for his children; a communication being made between the two houses, as Sir John Fielding phrased it, in 1777, ‘for the more immediate intercourse of the royal family.’ Hence much of the celebrity of Leicester House became extended to Savile House, wherein, probably, was performed Addison's play of Cato by the junior branches of the Prince of Wales's household, Prince George playing Portius. […]

At the commencement of the present century, Savile House was rebuilt by the late M. Samuel Page of Dulwich, an architect of some eminence at the time. The famous Chancery suit of ‘Page v. Linwood and others,’ which lasted forty years, related to this property. Lord Chancellor Cottenham, when Mr Pepys, was counsel for the plaintiff; and Mr Sugden, now Lord St. Leonards, was counsel for Miss Linwood.

Miss Linwood's Needlework was exhibited at Savile House from the commencement of the present century until the year after her death in 1845, in her 90th year. She worked her first picture when thirteen years old, and the last piece when seventy-eight years. […]

At Savile House the National Political Union held its Reform meetings; and here was exhibited, in 1849, an extensive moving Panorama of the Mississippi River, &c. The place has since been a very Noah's Ark of exhibitions, of greater variety than delicacy. The large building, Savile House, was destroyed by fire in less than two hours, on the night of February 28, 1865” (511-13).