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Quirky London 4: The oldest house

Posted on 4 February 20102 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley


Where is it? Cloth Fair, just south of Smithfield Market.

What’s quirky about it? It’s said to be the oldest surviving house in London, a miraculous survivor of the Great Fire, the Luftwaffe, and the even worse Developers. It’s been sympathetically restored quite a bit, apparently, but would be instantly recognisable to its original inhabitants of the 1590s.


Why bike there? Cloth Fair (right) is a pioneering bike contraflow street, so you can legally ride the wrong way up a one way street. The ancient church of St Bartholomew opposite does some funny bun-throwing stuff every Good Friday.


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