Billingsgate Roman House & Baths

You are standing near a structure that holds a secret beneath the modern pavement. The Billingsgate Roman House and Baths represents the only surviving private residence from Roman London, tucked away in the basement of an ordinary office building. While the surface of Lower Thames Street gives no hint of its age, this site preserves the remnants of a wealthy riverside home that was originally built around the year 150. You are looking at a place that stood for centuries, surviving the collapse of Roman authority and the eventual decay of the city that once surrounded it.