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Billingsgate Roman House and Baths

A Roman townhouse and its bathhouse, complete with underfloor heating, in an office basement.

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Photo by Carla Brain, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Built around AD 150 on what was then the riverfront, given a bath suite a century later, and lived in until Roman London ended in the early 400s: the only Roman house in London you can walk through. Found in 1848 when the Coal Exchange was built and kept under it, then kept again under the office block that replaced the Exchange in the 1960s. From walkways over the remains you look down into the hot room with the pillars of the hypocaust still standing, the cold plunge, and the walls of the house around them. Access is by guided tour with a City Guide, an hour long, and children need to be eight or over.

Where
101 Lower Thames Street, EC3R 6DL
Nearest station
Monument · 3 min walk

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