Suffolk Place
Suffolk Place (or Suffolk House) was a mansion house located on the west side of
Norwich Place on the Strand, on the north side of the Thames, nearer to the Palace of Westminster
.
King Henry VIII granted it to his wife
Anthony van den Wyngaerde in his Panorama of London, to the left of Borough High Street in the foreground of the picture.[5] It was demolished in 1557 and the area was built over with small tenements, which became known as The Mint, a notorious rookery.[6][7]
A modern office block called Brandon House at 180 Borough High Street (opposite Borough tube station) now occupies the site of Suffolk Place.[8] It is also memorialised by nearby Suffolk Street.
References
- ^ Jerry White (2007) London in the Nineteenth Century: 9
- ^ Felix Barker and Peter Jackson (1974) London: 2000 Years of a City and its People: 52
- ^ Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, vol. X, no. 243
- ^ "Mint Street" in Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (1983) The London Encyclopaedia: 521
- ^ Felix Barker and Peter Jackson (1974) London: 2000 Years of a City and its People: 48-52
- ^ "Mint Street" in Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (1983) The London Encyclopaedia: 521
- ^ Jerry White (2007) London in the Nineteenth Century: 9-10
- ^ "Borough High Street" in Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (1983) The London Encyclopaedia: 78