Clarendon Cottage, 17 Gentleman's Row

Originally a 16th century timber-framed hall house of two bays, an extension was added in the 17th century when the whole was refronted and covered in painted stucco. The sash windows, those on the ground floor with external shutters, are 18th century, but the bull's-eye window (not visible in this image) is a modern addition. The door of six fielded panels, now top-glazed, sits in a raised stucco surround with Gothic raised border and break-front doorcase. A picturesque cottage much favoured by local artists, a wooden plaque notes its association with Charles and Mary Lamb, who stayed for some months on two occasions (1825 and 1827) when it was a boarding house. - [From Treasures of Enfield]

By the end of the 17th century it had become, as was the fate of so many houses in Gentleman's Row, a girls' school. - [From A portrait of Gentleman's Row]