You enter from Willow Lane through a covered passage into what was then known as King's Court.

Here the little house faces you, and you meet it with a peculiarly agreeable sensation, recalling more than one incident in _Lavengro_ that transpired there.

In 1897 the then mayor made the one attempt of his city of a whole half century to honour Borrow by calling this court Borrow's Court--thereby conferring a ridiculously small distinction upon Borrow,[13] and removing a landmark connected with one of its own worthy citizens.

For Thomas King, the carpenter, was in direct descent in the maternal line from the family of Parker, which gave to Norwich one of its most distinguished sons in the famous Archbishop of Queen Elizabeth's day.

He extended his business as carpenter sufficiently to die a prosperous builder.