Pulteneys Inn

Has been described as a Possible Fortified Town House

There are no visible remains

NamePulteneys Inn
Alternative NamesPulteney House; Pountney's Inn; Manor of the Rose; Redde Roos; Red Rose
Historic CountryLondon and Middlesex
Modern AuthorityCity and County of the City of London
1974 AuthorityGreater London
Civil ParishCity Of London

Licence to crenellate issued, in 1341, to Johannes de Pulteneye, for 'mansum' in London. John de Pulteney was mayor of London 1330-33 and 1336. He also obtained, at the same time, licenses for Penshurst Place and Cheveley Pulteney House, situated in or near Candlewick Street, in the parish later called St. Lawrence Pountney in the City of London.

Pulteney's Inn, later know as the manor of the Rose, was (Sir John Pulteney's) principal residence, developed in the late 1330's with a crenellated range (possibly the hall) and a four-storeys tower at its upper end erected under a licence of 1341. The property was subsequently held by a number of distinguished magnates including the Black Prince, the earl of Arundel (1385-97), Edmund, duke of York, the dukes of Suffolk (1439-1504), and Edward, duke of Buckingham (1506-21). This was a mansion on the grandest scale, but though a late thirteenth/early fourteenth-century two-bay vaulted undercroft, narrow vaulted passage, and two small chambers in line were discovered in 1894, they were ruthlessly destroyed. (Emery p. 223)

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Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceTQ327807
Latitude51.5106582641602
Longitude-0.0889400020241737
Eastings532710
Northings180790
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Books

  • Renn, Derek., 2014, 'The other towers of London' in Hidden histories and records of antiquity; essays on Saxon and medieval London for John Clark, curator emeritus, Museum of London (London and Middlesex Archaeology Society Special Paper 17) p. 32-5
  • Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales Vol. 3 Southern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) p. 223, 439
  • Brigham, T. and Woodger, A., 2001, Roman and medieval townhouses on the London waterfront: excavations at Governor's House, City of London (London: MoLAS 9)
  • Schofield, J., 1999 3edn, The Building of London from the Conquest to the Great Fire (Stroud) p. 81-2 and fig. 83
  • Colvin, H. and Foister, S. (eds), 1996, The Panorama of London c. 1544 by Anthonis van den Wyngaerde (London Topographical Society 151) VII 7
  • Schofield, J., 1995, Medieval London Houses (Yale University Press) p. 43, 69, 193 No. 114 (Plan)
  • Lobel, M.D. (ed), 1989, The City of London from prehistoric times to c.1520 British Atlas of Historic Towns Vol. 3 (Oxford University Press) p. 85 online copy
  • Salzman, L.F., 1957 (2edn 1965), Building in England Down to 1540 p. 575-6
  • Harben, H.A., 1918, A Dictionary of London online transcription
  • Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol. 3 Part 2 p. 413 online copy

Antiquarian

  • Kingsford, C.L. (ed), 1908, A Survey of London, by John Stow: Reprinted from the text of 1603 Vol. 1 p. 74, 113, 237-8 Vol. 2 p. 322 online copy
  • Anthony van den Wyngaerde, c. 1543, Panorama of London online copy

Journals

  • Davis, Philip, 2010-11, 'Crenellated town houses in Medieval England' Castle Studies Group Journal Vol. 24 p. 270-91
  • Kingsford, C.L., 1917, 'Historical Notes on Medieval London Houses (Part 2)' London Topographical Record Vol. 11 p. 74-8
  • Norman, P., 1901, 'Sir John de Pulteney and his Two Residences in London, Coldharbour and the Manor of the Rose, Together with a Few Remarks on the Parish of St Lawrence Pountney' Archaeologia Vol. 57 p. 257-84

Primary Sources

  • Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1900, Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward III (1340-43) Vol. 5 p. 331 online copy