Burleigh House, Enfield

Burleigh House was built in Church Street, west of Enfield Marketplace,[3] in the mid-17th century for the lawyer James Mayoe, who erected it on the site of a larger house once owned by the merchant Benjamin Deicrowe Jr., which, through connivance and legal manoeuvring, Mayoe had obtained from the indebted Deicrowe.

In the early 1900s, the kitchen still had a roasting spit that was thought to be 200 years old and a deep well that still provided water.

The drawing room was on the first floor with three round-headed windows and a chimney-piece in white marble showing Alexander the Great.

[7] A noted feature of the house was its iron gates, believed to have been made by the blacksmith Thomas Warren (1673-1736).

[1][3] The house is remembered in Burleigh Way, north of Church Street and to the west of the marketplace.