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Not every statue in London. The ones worth crossing the road for: Roman wall, medieval ruins, and the monuments that earn a detour.
The moated house Edward III built at the river's edge, dug back out from under a warehouse.
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Built around 1350, when Rotherhithe was a hamlet, on a small island in a moat: stone ranges around a courtyard with a hall and fireplace, the king's own apartments and kitchens, and the north wall standing straight out of the Thames. Nobody is sure what it was for. A hunting lodge makes little sense with no park attached to it, and a falconry has been suggested instead. After the king died it went to the Cistercians of St Mary Graces by the Tower and then, in 1399, to Bermondsey Abbey; it was sold off after the Dissolution, became a pottery in the 1600s, and was swallowed by the warehouses that came with the docks - its façade was still standing inside one in 1907. The warehouse came down in the 1970s, the site was excavated in the 1980s, and the north and east walls were left exposed where they stand, close to four metres of ashlar and rubble in a patch of ground between the flats and the river.
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