Durham House

Durham House, also known as Durham Inn, was the historic town house of the Bishop of Durham in the Strand, City of Westminster. Its gardens descended to the River Thames.

Type: Apartment building
Description: historic London town house of the Bishop of Durham in the Strand
Also known as: “Durham House, London” and “Durham Inn”
Address: 16 John Adam Street, London

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Leicester Square and London Charing Cross.

Leicester Square

Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The area around Leicester Square, often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of London. The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.

London Charing Cross

Railway station

Photo: Joshua Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Charing Cross railway station is a central London railway terminus between the Strand and Hungerford Bridge in the City of Westminster. It is the terminus of the Southeastern Main Lines to Dover via Ashford and Hastings via Tunbridge Wells. London Charing Cross is situated 580 feet south of Durham House.

Royal Opera House

Arts center

Photo: Russ London, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Royal Opera House is a theatre in Covent Garden, central London. The building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the site. Royal Opera House is situated 1,400 feet north of Durham House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Covent Garden and West End of London.

Covent Garden

Photo: Hamster28, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Covent Garden is one of the main shopping and entertainment districts of London, and is hugely popular with visitors, who swarm to its shops, bars and restaurants, especially at weekends.

West End of London

Locality

Photo: Jimmy Baikovicius, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The West End of London is a district of London, England. It is west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in the London Borough of Camden and the City of Westminster.

Chinatown

Suburb

Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Chinatown is an ethnic enclave in the City of Westminster, London, bordering Soho to its north and west and Theatreland to the south and east. The enclave currently occupies the area in and around Gerrard Street.

Durham House

Categories: townhouse, destroyed building or structure, building, and residential building
Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.50907° or 51° 30′ 33″ north

Longitude

-0.12344° or 0° 7′ 24″ west

Levels

Open location code

9C3XGV5G+JJ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 68807956

OpenStreetMap feature

building=apartments

Wikidata ID

Q5316524

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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Japanese—“Durham House” goes by many names.

Bulgarian: “Дърам Хаус”
Japanese: “ダラム・ハウス (ロンドン)”

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