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Various sources identify Shakespeare's house, the gatehouse, which he purchased in 1613, as having been on the site of what is now the Cockpit pub at this junction, rather than the building with the plaque - but see below.

2026: The , and many other publications, reported on the results of some research by Professor Lucy Munro concerning this house. She had found a map that shows the house, a map that enabled her to say exactly where it was, and it was, amazingly, exactly where the building with the plaque is. So the inscription on the plaque could do with being made more definitive.

The house was L-shaped and large enough that by 1645, it had been divided into two houses. Shakespeare’s granddaughter, who inherited the house, sold it in 1665, and it burned down during the Great Fire of London the following year.

We have closely examined the copies of the map published on-line. No one has thought to annotate them to show the house, and we certainly cannot work out which the house was - frustrating.