Contiguous to Winchester-house, on the south, formerly stood the residence of the bishops of Rochester. On , Henry VIII. Nicholas Heath, then bishop of Rochester, granted to John Sturdevant the office of keeper of the house or episcopal mansion, and garden adjoining to the bishop of Winchester's house: which house and garden formerly belonged to the priory of St. Swithin in Winchester, lately dissolved. Stow speaks of it in his time as not having been of a long time frequented, and in a ruinous condition. In it was let on lease for lives, at . per year, and afterwards divided into tenements. In , it was let at a year.

It was sold by parliament in , with Winchester-house, to Thomas Walker; but at the restoration reverted to its legitimate owner, and has been let on leases.

When a new plan was formed for the Borough market, in , part of the site of this house was taken for the purpose, at a rent of and paying occasionally a heavy fine on renewal. What is now denominated