Kenway Mansion
The Kenway Mansion is Edward Kenway's old London home on Queen Anne's Square, now owned by the Templars. Evie and Henry search it for the Shroud of Eden in Playing It by Ear, and Evie returns in 1888 during the Jack the Ripper expansion.
- Type
- Landmark
- Region
- City of London
- Province
- Queen Anne's Square
Good to know
- Location: Queen Anne's Square, City of London.
- Story memory: Playing It by Ear.
- Jack the Ripper memory: The Unfortunates.
- Edward lived here with his family until his death in 1735.
- Full sync for Playing It by Ear: find all seven pieces of Edward's memorabilia and solve the piano puzzle without a wrong note.
- Lucy Thorne keeps a study here that she uses as an office.
Playing It by Ear
Following Edward's journal, Evie and Henry find his secret vault in the house, but have to leave when Lucy Thorne arrives. The history they take from the hidden room sends Evie on to the Monument.
1888SpoilerShow
Lady Owers holds a meeting here about rescuing Whitechapel's prostitutes. Evie follows Nellie inside and learns that Owers feeds Jack information through her brothels.
History
The Templars bought the estate quietly after Jennifer Scott's death in 1805.
Edward's hidden room
Edward kept souvenirs of his pirate years at the house, including a secret basement room holding Assassin records and the helm of his ship, the Jackdaw. The piano in the music room opens the way down, which is why the memory's full-sync goal involves playing it cleanly.
How Nellie ends up hereSpoilerShow
In The Unfortunates, Rooks loyal to Jack drag Nellie from her brothel to the house for Owers' gathering. Owers spots Evie in the crowd and slips away in a carriage, starting the chase that ends with the decoy.
The UnfortunatesThe Unfortunates is the third Jack the Ripper memory: Evie searches Jacob's Whitechapel lodgings, picks up her first fear bombs and spikes, then tracks Jacob's contact Nellie from a brothel to a charity event run by Lady Owers at the Kenway Mansion.- Playing It by EarPlaying It by Ear sends Evie and Henry into the Kenway Mansion, now a Templar house, following Eagle Vision clues in Thorne's notebook. You hunt for Edward Kenway's keepsakes and solve a piano puzzle that opens a secret room.
Related places
- Landmark
Queen Anne's Square
Queen Anne's Square is a garden square in the City of London best known as the site of the Kenway Mansion, Edward Kenway's last home and Haytham Kenway's childhood house.
- Region
Whitechapel
Whitechapel is the first borough you liberate and the poorest in London, a district of slums and crime. Rexford Kaylock's Blighters hold it when the Fryes arrive in 1868, and in 1888 it becomes Jack the Ripper's hunting ground.
- Landmark
Bank of England
The Bank of England is the City of London's central bank and the target of Sequence 6, A Run on the Bank, where Jacob tracks a Templar robbing its branches. You return to its vault twice more: once for the stolen printing plates and once in The Last Maharaja.
- Base
Black Swan Yard
Black Swan Yard is one of Bloody Nora's three Blighter strongholds in the City of London, set beside the river. Capturing it for the Rooks is part of taking the borough.