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 | | Two years, later the newly-formed 78 Derngate Northampton Trust took a 99-year sub-lease with the purpose of restoring the house and opening it to the public, along with the adjoining house, number 80, as an exhibition and circulation space. |
 | | From these sources, it would seem that in the late spring of 1916 Bassett-Lowke had his eye on this house, conveniently close to his work in Kingswell Street, relatively cheap, being a hundred years old, but in a street that was seeing something of a revival. |
 | | Although Bassett-Lowke told Howarth in 1946 that the structural alterations were already taking place when he met Mackintosh, it is possible that Mackintosh took the basic idea as shown in the Anderson plans, and suggested carrying the bay up the entire elevation, creating the veranda and balcony to the bedrooms. |
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