These ancient wooden cottages were in Colombo Street, previously Collingwood Street, previously Green Walk just south of Christ Church in Blackfriars Road.

Christ Church was a new parish formed in 1671 from St Saviour's Southwark, but it did not develop until after the building of Blackfriars Bridge and its approach roads during the 1790s, and the draining of the surrounding marshy ground at the same time. 

These cottages are shown on the John Roque map of 1745 and may date from 50 years earlier. They were demolished in 1948 after suffering wartime bomb damage.