The first building on the site was a mansion known as Lordship Lodge which was commissioned a shipbuilder, Joseph Fletcher, in the first half of the 19th century.

After Fletcher died in 1852, the house was acquired by the Royal Masonic School for Boys which moved into the building in 1857.

In the late 19th century, the school governors decided to move to new premises on a site to the north of The Avenue in Bushey.

[5][6] Then, in 2013, a juror in a sexual case being heard at Wood Green was jailed for two months after being found guilty of contempt of court for misusing the internet during a trial there,[7][8] and, in 2015, Jermaine Baker was shot dead by police while trying to free a prisoner, Izzet Eren, who was on his way to the court in a prison van.

[9][10] Notable cases include the trial and conviction of the scaffolder, Arthur Collins, in November 2017, on five counts of grievous bodily harm and nine of actual bodily harm; Collins was a former boyfriend of the television presenter, Ferne McCann.