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Central London in 1666, with the burnt area shown in pink. ... House 1597–1614 II* 74–75 Long Lane Long Lane: House 1598 II: 229 Strand Strand: Townhouse 1625 II*
The Great Fire of London, depicted by an unknown painter (1675), as it would have appeared from a boat in the vicinity of Tower Wharf on the evening of Tuesday, 4 September 1666. To the left is London Bridge; to the right, the Tower of London. Old St Paul's Cathedral is in the distance, surrounded by the tallest flames.
The genesis of the Georgian terraced house in London can be somewhat traced to the reconstruction of London after The Great fire of 1666, which introduced building regulations that standardised plot size, building height and use of brick in new houses.
The house later became the property of the Earls of Shrewsbury, and its name was changed to Shrewsbury House. Coldharbour was either dismantled by the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury [ 4 ] or destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666 , although a later building with the same name, constructed on the same site, was used as the hall of the Company of ...
Pudding Lane is a small street in London, widely known as the location of Thomas Farriner's bakery, where the Great Fire of London started in 1666. It runs between Eastcheap and Thames Street in the historic City of London, and intersects Monument Street, the site of Christopher Wren's Monument to the Great Fire.
1666 in England was the first year to be designated as an Annus mirabilis, in John Dryden's 1667 poem, which celebrated England's failure to be beaten either by fire (the Great Fire of London) or by the Dutch.
Peterborough House, 19th century engraving of a 1666 illustration. Peterborough House (alias Millbank House, later Grosvenor House), on the south-west side of Parsons Green, near Eel Brook Common, [1] was a London townhouse owned by the Mordaunt family, Earls of Peterborough and later by the Grosvenor family.
Houses completed in 1666 (5 P) R. Religious buildings and structures completed in 1666 (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures completed in 1666"