Queen's-Haven have a post about this house, where it was and what occupied the site after it was gone, and gives "Norfolk House ... lies to the south of the foundations of Bigod House, sometimes called Norfolk Inn, the medieval mansion of the Mowbray family and later of the Howard dukes of Norfolk." and "residence of the Dukes of Norfolk at Broken Wharf which Stow describes as being a large old building of stone, with arched gates."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Biggott House / Bigod House
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Biggott House
Norfolk House stands on the site of Biggott House, the town house of the Earl...
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George Peabody
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Nicholas Stone
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York Watergate
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Created a life peer on 4 February 1991 as Baron Palumbo of Walbrook in the City of London.
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