Lincoln House, Ponders End

Erected probably in the early years of the sixteenth century and inhabited by William Wickham, Bishop of Lincoln, from 1577 to 1594, and afterwards by the second and third Earls of Lincoln, from which it obtained its name. Lincoln House was almost entirely destroyed by fire about 1825 and when rebuilt bore little resemblance to the original structure.
Of this house, the Rev. Daniel Lysons wrote (in The Environs of London, 1795) "It is now a school"; and this appears to justify the assertion that Lincoln House was the school "kept by a Scotchman, one Peter Morrison" ... where Isaac Disraeli, who was born in 1766 at Enfield, received his early instruction. ... In 1897 the house was occupied by the Conservative Club.
From: An illustrated historical, statistical and topographical account of the urban district of Enfield / by Cuthbert Wilfrid Whitaker. 1911. Reprinted and distributed by the Enfield Preservation Society, 1969.