Mayfair's oldest house

On this site, until destroyed by bombing during the winter of 1940, stood an archway and Mayfair's oldest house, 'The Cottage, 1618 A.D.' from where a shepherd tended his flock whilst Tyburn idled nearby.

The Cottage, 1618 A.D., was Mayfair's oldest house and is noted for its early 17th-century origins, associated with a shepherd who once tended his flock near the Tyburn stream. It was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940 and is significant as a rare example of pre-urban development in central London.