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> [!SUMMARY]
> **Brewery House**, or **Borough House**, was a four-storey building located at the entrance of the cobbled brew yard of [[1758-1781 owner Henry Thrale MP|Thrale's Anchor Brewery]].
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> <div class="caption">Brewery House in 1833.</div>
At the rear of the house was the nine-acre brewery site with stables for around 100 horses, dung pits, 38 vats, storehouses, vaults and Clerk's quarters.
Also known as _Borough House_, this was another of [[Henry Thrale|Henry Thrale's]] residences. [[Dr. Samuel Johnson]] also had an apartment here.
## Location
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Now known as 21 & 23 Park Street Southwark, London. The address was Deadmans Place, so called because of the [pest houses](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pest_house) established there during the [great plague](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_London).
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<div class="caption">21 & 23 Park Street, Southwark.</div>
Borough House was located on the side of the first independent church in London[^1]. It was near Bandyleg Walk, Dirty Lane, The Naked Boy, [The Clink](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clink), Frying Pan Alley and [St. Mary Overy's Dock](https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/educational-images/st-mary-overys-dock-clink-wharf-limited-southwark-london-3650).
> [!QUOTE] The area was once described…
> London's scrap heap, the refuge of its excluded occupations and its rejected residents.
## Contemporary use
It is now known as Park Street, Southwark, London, part of a wider area called [Bankside](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankside) which is a strip of land running along the River Thames, comprising:
- a river walk;
- [Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Globe); and
- the [Tate Modern](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate_Modern).
The dilapidated building, which at one point was used as [council housing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_the_United_Kingdom) was sold by [Southwark Council](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwark_London_Borough_Council) in 2013 for £2.96 million. It has since been subject to a high standard of renovation and in 2015, 23 Park Street was sold for £3 million - making it the:
> most expensive council house in the UK.
## See also
![[henry-thrale-1724-1781🔎#^henry-thrale-infoblock]]![[hester-lynch-thrale-1741-1821🔎#^hester-lynch-thrale-infoblock]]![[samuel-johnson-1709-1784🔎#^samuel-johnson-infoblock]] •
#history/person/THRALE/henry-born-1724-1730
#history/person/JOHNSON/samuel-born-1709
#history/place/england/surrey/southwark/anchor-brewery
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[^1]: Jacob-Lathrop Church. It was founded by Reverend John Lathrop in 1616, and sought religious independence from the Church of England.