half-timbering

Four chambers with later shops at 1-4 Holborn Bars. The rear of these buildings form Nos 4, 5 & 6 Staple Inn. Built 1586 for Vincent Engham, Principal of the Inn. A unique example in London of a Cl6 group of timber-framed houses.

Inn. Late C15, altered in C17 with C19 additions. Timber-framed and plastered with some old plastered panels; painted brick plinth.

House, now public house. Late C16 or early C17, altered in C19 and C20. Timber-framed, now clad in plaster with applied painted half-timbering.

Now known as the Raymond Timberland Library, the Raymond Public Library was built in a Tudor Revival style in 1929 and repaired and refreshed in 2020-21. Outside is a sculpture of the Bremen Town Musicians, from a Grimm fairy tale.