One of the significant developments of Tudor architecture was the increased use of red brick, a building material that became more readily available due to technical innovations in the late 15th century. Examples of this can be seen in the form of Bruce Castle (c.early 16th century): believed to be one of the oldest brick houses in England, the gatehouse of Lambeth Palace (1495) and St James's Palace (1536). Tudor architecture however is most closely associated with its distinctive vernacular buildings which were typically timber framed and filled with wattle and daub giving the building a black and white 'checkerboard' appearance. Most commercial and residential buildings in London before the great fire resembled this from. Only a tiny handful of such buildings survive to this day including Staple Inn: an Inn of Chancery dating back to the Tudor period, 41 Cloth Fair: central London's oldest house started in 1597 and Prince Henry's Room: a timber-framed jettied townhouse built in 1610. Although the vast majority of such structures were destroyed in the Great Fire of London many timber-framed houses did, in fact, survive until as late as the late 19th and early 20th centuries but were demolished to make way for new development. A famous example of this is the demolition of Wych Street in the Edwardian period to make way for Kingsway, a new road built between the Strand and High Holborn.