2-699-091 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Nonsuch House', (c1872). Nonsuch House on old London Bridge was originally constructed in the Netherlands, taken apart and shipped to London in pieces in 1578. It is the earliest documented prefabricated building. Nonsuch House served as an entrance to the City of London from Southwark. It was torn down in the eighteenth century. From Old and New London, Vol. II: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]