ABSTRACT
Caroone House is a large, bland and slightly shabby office block of the early 1970s on the east side of Farringdon Street, well below Holborn Viaduct and almost at Ludgate Circus. It is leased by British Telecom from Sun Life and it looks the part. Its name is a nod to history, more obfuscation than memory: ‘Caroone’ derives not from some duly enobled and swiftly forgotten captain of commerce but from the levy for driving a cart in the City of London.2 One room on the first floor is occupied by the freeholder of Caroone House-not Sun Life at all but the Congregational Memorial Hall Trust (1978) Limited, Company No. 1389165, Charity No. 260601. Caroone House stands on the site of the Congregational Memorial Hall.
