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Durham House, Strand

Built in the thirteenth century as the town house for the Bishop of Durham, in its time the house has also sheltered Simon de Montfort, Catharine of Aragon, Cardinal Wolsey, Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cranmer, the Duke of Northumberland, Lady Jane Grey and Elizabeth I.

The house suffered many alterations during the seventeenth centuries (part of it being incorporated into Salisbury House), and the final remnants of a once maginficent house was demolished to make room for the Adelphi Hotel in 1769 - 1770.

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