Paper Buildings

Names

  • Paper Buildings
  • Heyward's Buildings

Street/Area/District

  • King's Bench Walk

Descriptions

from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)

Paper Buildings

On the west side of King's Bench Walk, within the Temple precincts (P.O. Directory).

First mention: 1669 (L. and P. Chas. II. 1668–9, p. 366).

Original buildings erected in 1609 and called "Heyward's Buildings" (Inner Temple Records, II. xxxiv.).

Conduit there in the 17th century (ib. xxxviii.), removed soon after 1629 (ib. lxxv.).

Buildings destroyed in the Fire, 1666. Rebuilt 1683 (ib. III. 191). Again burnt down 1838. Rebuilt 1848. Archt., Smirke.