Belonged to King Henry IV who gave it to his wife Queen Jane after which it was called her Wardrobe. It was afterwards a printing-house, and then a tavern. Not to be confused with Northumberland House at Charing Cross.
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Northumberland House - St Martin's le Grand
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Northumberland House - St Martin's le Grand
Site of Northumberland House The Corporation of the City of London
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St Marylebone Almshouses
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H. E. Tufton
Surveyor of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919, he may have also designed the building in Bow Road.
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John Bacon
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