Shakespeare's mysterious London house Is finally located after 400 years

WILLIAM Shakespeare's mysterious London property has finally been located after four centuries.

The famous playwright is from Stratford-upon-Avon, a little town in England, around 104 miles northwest of London.

Historians believed that Shakespeare returned there to retire after his theatrical career in the capital city and while they knew that he owned a property in London, they did not know exactly where it was located, according to the BBC and The Sun.

But after 400 years, Shakespeare expert Professor Lucy Munro has finally located documents which show the exact size and location of his house, which they have pinpointed to a street in the Blackfriars neighbourhood of London.

There is a plaque on St Andrew's Hill in London stating that Shakespeare bought a property “near this site” in 1613. But the BBC reported that the sign is on his exact house.

Academics believe this new evidence suggests that the poet and actor spent more time in London than previously thought.

“It would have been sort of L-shaped, with part of it going over the gatehouse,” said Munro, who described Shakespeare's home to CNN.

“It's not huge, but it's relatively substantial,” she told the outlet. “It was large enough to be subdivided into two houses at some point.”

Munro was doing research for another project when she came across the floor plan after retrieving documents from the London Archives and the National Archives.

She told the BBC: “I was doing research as part of a wider project and couldn't believe it when I realized what I was looking at — the floorplan of Shakespeare's Blackfriars house.”

Munro said that the property was close to where Shakespeare worked, at the Blackfriars Theatre.

"We know that Shakespeare co-authored Two Noble Kinsmen with John Fletcher later in 1613, and this new evidence that the Blackfriars house was quite substantial makes it possible that some of it may have been written in this very property,” she told the news outlet.

Munro also found in the documents that the Blackfriars house was sold by Shakespeare's granddaughter in 1665, 49 years after he died in 1616.

His property was sold just one year before the Great Fire of London ripped through the city in September 1666.