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# The Cottage, Stanhope Row Standing on this quiet Mayfair street, you're looking at the ghost of London's most unlikely survivor—a humble shepherd's cottage that somehow persisted for over three centuries while the aristocratic splendor of Mayfair rose up around it. From 1618 onwards, this ramshac...

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On this site, until destroyed by bombing during the winter of 1940, stood an archway and Mayfair's oldest house. 'The Cottage. 1618 A.D.' from where a shepherd tended his flock whilst Tyburn idled nearby.