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Mr Saunders Great Room

This and the 18th century buildings of the west boundary of the close comprise a visually harmonious group of houses, diverse yet unified. That part of No. 12 having large windows was in 1750 described as "Mr Saunders' Great Room" and it served as a coffee house as well as a dancing room. Some twenty five years later, we learn, Lord Berkeley leased it as his town house.

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