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Butcher Row

Medieval and Tudor houses in Butcher Row in the late eighteenth century. The right hand corner house in this view (which stood on the east side of St Clement’s Lane, near Clement’s Inn, and which was taken down 30 March 1798) was reputed to have been the house in which the Gunpowder Plot (1605) was hatched.

By the Regency period Butcher Row had vanished. Considered a public nuisance, the street became a "happy sacrifice to noble improvements".

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