On the north side of Holborn on the site now occupied by Brooke Street (q.v.).
Accounts Commissioners met there in 1669 (H. MSS. Com. 8th Rep. 129a).
In O. and M. 1677, outside the City boundary.
The residence of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke.
Formerly called Bath Place (q.v.) as being the residence of Earl of Bath, 1623.
By Letters Patent, 34 Chas. II., a market was authorised to be held at Brook House Orchard four times weekly (MSS. H. of Lords).
A Dictionary of London. Henry A Harben. 1918.