Local Local History have thoroughly researched and reported on the exact location of this house, confirming the plaque location to be correct. That's where this image comes from, captioned: "Drawing of Defoe's House, by T. Crawford, 1724 Built C. 1700 Demolished 1865." Defoe lived at Sutton House 1709 - 29. Not to be confused with Sutton House in Homerton.
This drawing shows a rather distorted view of the house and stables. The central part of this house's front elevation looks very similar to what is now the nearby number 91, and was at the time it's next door neighbour.
Source: Local Local History.
There is one image on that website that we find very puzzling. It appears to be a photograph and is captioned "Nos. 89-93 Stoke Newington Church Street in 2010". Certainly nos. 89-91 look exactly as they do in the Google Street View of July 2011 but in Street View the entire ground floor of no.93 is a Ladbrokes shopfront, whereas at LLH it appears to be the original elevation, just as untouched as that of nos. 89 and 91. We can only think that the researchers at LLH have composed the image to show what the street front would have look like, and forgotten to explain their artifice.
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