Disability Equality Scheme DISABILITY EQUALITY SCHEME (REVISED
30th APRIL 2009) 1. Sir John Soane’s Museum The architect Sir
John Soane’s house at No. 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields has been a
public museum since the early 19th century. Soane demolished and
rebuilt three houses on the north side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields,
beginning with No. 12 between 1792 and 1794, moving on to No.
13, re-built in two phases in 1807-9 and 1812, and concluding
with No. 14, rebuilt in 1823-24. Throughout the period he also
made continuous alterations, adding more objects to his
arrangements and seeking always to enhance the poetic effects
and picturesque qualities of the architectural setting. On his
appointment as Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy in
1806, Soane ‘began to arrange the Books, casts and models in
order that the students might have the benefit of easy access to
them’ and proposed opening his house for the use of the Royal
Academy students the day before and the day after each of his
lectures. By 1827, when Jo