Coldharbour, City of London

The house was located in Upper Thames Street, a narrow riverside lane, along with other noblemen's mansions.

The house was first mentioned in the reign of Edward II as belonging to the knight Sir John Abel.

At the end of the 14th century, it belonged to John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, a half-brother of King Richard II, whom he entertained in the house.

Henry VII took possession of the house away from the college and gave it to his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby.

Coldharbour was either dismantled by the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury[4] or destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666, although a later building with the same name, constructed on the same site, was used as the hall of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen until 1778.