What made its end remarkable was what the demolition crew found when they stripped the render from the façade: a moulded limestone doorway, 1.7 metres high, that had been quietly walled into obscurity when a 19th-century window was inserted in its place. Part of the original door jamb had been broken up and reused as infill around that newer window, a small act of recycling that inadvertently preserved the evidence. Moulded limestone fireplaces, wooden floors resting on corbels set into the walls, and internal partitions of timber packed with mud and straw completed a picture of a substantial late 16th or early 17th-century townhouse that had spent its final 150 years disguised as something else entirely.

The house appeared on Grace's map of 1708, already old by then, and would have looked across towards the Everard mansion house that once occupied the opposite side of the street. By around 1840 it had been converted into a hotel, a function it kept until roughly 1950 when it closed. In 1911 the building had been absorbed into the property immediately to the north, which accounts for the noticeable difference in construction between the original three-storey limestone rubble structure, with walls a full metre thick, and the northern extension, distinguished by thinner walls of around 0.65 metres and noticeably higher ceilings. The building was declared a dangerous structure and came down in September and October of 1993, though the southern party wall was retained and incorporated into the replacement building. The fireplaces uncovered in that southern wall, one at first-floor level and one above it, were reportedly blocked up but kept within the new structure.