Image: plan of Havering, reproduced from H. Colvin, History of the King’s Works, iv/2, Fig. 15 (plan by Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office courtesy of the Open Government License Agreement); reconstruction view https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19988227
Acquired: 1509
Havering had been held as part of the queen’s dower as far back as the mid-fifteenth century. Under Henry it belonged successively to Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour; later it was used as a nursery palace for Prince Edward. Some repairs were carried out by the king’s officials, however, and in 1543 Henry stayed at the nearby estate of Pyrgo. The house remained a royal hunting lodge until after the Civil War. No remains exist today, but a ground plan of the house was drawn in a 1578 survey.