Lauderdale Buildings

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

East out of Aldersgate Street, at No. 57, in Aldersgate Ward Without (P.O. Directory).


First mention: (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 122) "Lauderdale House or Court."

"Swan Inn" in O. and M. 1677. "Lauderdale House" in Rocque, 1746.

Erected on the site of Lauderdale House, the town house of the Duke of Lauderdale, temp. Chas. II. hence the name.

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