100 BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM. 
house, it will be seen, appears to have been of the 17th century. 
The present building occupies the site of the old stabling, in the 
forecourt of which were chestnut trees with seats beneath for the 
beguilement of the traveller. It was built in 1886. 
Nos. 168 and 170 take the place of two weather-boarded 
cottages shown in Plate 42, whilst on the site of Nos. 174-6 were 
two small cottages with windows which were doubtless intended 
to be Gothic, and spoke plainly of the early Victorian period. 
The row of small houses, Nos. 180 to 198, now all turned into 
shops, belong also to the early years of Queen Victoria. The 
modern shops, Nos. 198 to 204, occupy the space of a small 
PLATE 42.—OLpD Hovuses NEAR THE ‘‘WHITE Hart” (Now Nos. 168 TO 178). 
whitewashed house of the 18th century. Bath House, now 
No. 208, is apparently another of the early 19th century villas 
which sprang up along the roads leading from London when the 
first movement to the suburbs took place. 
We have now arrived at the Bridge House Mill, and must 
cross the road to the site of ‘‘ The Limes.”’ 
This spot, sacred to the memory of John Wesley, is now the 
site of the shops numbered 169 and 171, which bear a tablet, 
‘©The Limes,’ rebuilt 1903.””. The house had been much altered 
and added to from time to time, but was apparently originally 
built in the 17th century. The house and garden immediately 
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