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Litttle Britain took its name from the fact that the Dukes of Brittany owned a house here in the Middle Ages. The Spectator was first printed in the street in 1711, and it is still here. Milton once lived in the street. So did Benjamin Franklin. Charles Wesley experienced his conversion to Methodism in a friend's house in Little Britain in 1738.

75 Little Britain

Little Britain runs almost from Smithfield Market to King Edward Street, within sight of St Paul's, where it takes a sudden sharp left turn. No. 75, on that corner, was built by St. George Homes and it is one of the largest developments of flats in the City in recent years, with 140 flats on six floors. Two flats were sold here in 2010 for £430,000 and £382,500. The façade at ground floor level (like Spencer Heights) looks, at a distance, like the stone-work of a bank, but really it’s just lines pressed into concrete, and it also has an unnecessary cornice pressed into the top of the red brick-work. The windows seem unnecessarily divided into narrow panes.

If that was the end of it, you would at least say the flats are very convenient if you work in the City, and it is probably one of the nicest locations. But actually that is not all there is to No. 75 Little Britain. The rear and side flats look out over Postman’s Park, the City's absolute gem of a park, which is usually entered off St Martin's Le Grand. The City does this sort of thing so much better than Kensington and Chelsea, with their brash squares full of straight lines and bushes. Postman’s Park is actually made up of five churchyards, from an era when a lot more people died and were buried in the City. It's a peaceful delight with a little pool and a fountain burbling away gently, lots of curving flower-beds and lawns. At the end is a little lean-to with a wall commemorating local heroes. For instance, Mary Rogers, ‘a stewardess of the Stella who gave up her life belt and voluntarily went down in the sinking ship’; or Frederick Alfred Croft, a train inspector who ‘saved a lunatic woman from suicide at Woolwich Arsenal station but was himself run over by the train, January 11, 1878’; and the bathos of four men ‘who lost their lives in bravely striving to save a comrade at the sewage pumping works East Ham 1st of July 1895.

1 Little Britain

White Horse House at No. 1 Little Britain has 9 flats (one sold for £500,000 in 2010)

No. 2 Little Britain

No. 2 Little Britain has three flat.

Buckley House, 4 Little Britain

Buckley House at No. 4 Little Britain contains eight flats. (One sold for £417,000 in 2010.)

Wesley House, 5 Little Britain

Wesley House at No. 5 Little Britain has 17 flats.

Sales

Sales are shown in reverse order (most recent at the top). If it's the sale of a house, it says "House" and the street no. is its address. Otherwise, it's the sale of a flat and the street no. is the address of the building containing the flat.

Price	Street No.
2011
£530,000	Buckley House, 4
2010
£495,000	Milton House, 75
£430,000	Milton House, 75
£382,500	Milton House, 75
£500,000	White Horse House, 1
£417,000	Buckley House, 4