House in St James's Square
In October 1673, Davis bought a new house in St James's Square from trustees for Edward Shaw, paying £1800. 'Madam Davis' first appears in the ratebook for the year 1675 and last appears in 1687. This house (which was surveyed by John Soane in 1799) was almost square and had three storeys, each with four evenly-spaced windows, all dressed with a wide architrave and cornice. The staircase hall was south of a large room in front, and two smaller rooms and a secondary staircase at the rear. There was a massive cross-wall, containing the fireplaces of the back rooms. It would now have been Number 22, St James's Square, if it had survived. It was demolished in 1847 to make way for a new club house for the Army and Navy Club, having survived longer than any other of the other original houses in the square.
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