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As in the case of the residences at the British Museum, it was built to provide on-site accommodation for several superintendents: by 1871, inhabitants included the family of Henry Cole, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s first director. Designed by Francis Fowke, the building continued the north Italian Renaissance style of the Sheepshanks Gallery (finished 1857; elevations now rebuilt). In Fowke’s proposals, it belonged to an extensive scheme for completing the Museum (see for instance E.1354-1979). Both this design for the Residences and Fowke’s designs for the adjacent Lecture Theatre block were carried out, but his ambitious plans for a large cour d’honneur to the south of the present Museum quadrangle would remain unexecuted.","physicalDescription":"Pen and ink drawing with watercolour on paper. This highly-finished elevation for the east façade of the Residences (the west façade of the Museum quadrangle) shows a three-storey building ten bays in length. 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