An Institution called Green BankMiddlesex 1841 census

Question

Does any one know what sort of institution Green Bank, East St George Middlesex was in the 1841 census? I am researching Sarah Addams. From the original document I think her father is a Thames? Policeman. Many other families are living there. Could this just be the way large buildings with many families were recorded in the census? Or is it a debtors prison or workhouse etc?

Name:    Sarah Addams
Titles and Terms:    
Titles and Terms:    NULL
Event Type:    Census
Event Date:    1841
Event Place:    St George, Middlesex, England
Residence Note:    Green Bank
Gender:    Female
Age:    15-19
Age (Original):    15
Occupation:    Null
Relationship to Head of Household:    
Institution:    
Birth Date:    
Birth Year (Estimated):    1822-1826
Birthplace:    Middlesex
Ship Name:    
Schedule Type:    
Registration District:    St George, East
Book Number:    3
Sub-District:    
Parish:    St George
County:    Middlesex
Page:    
Page Number:    15
Line Number:    16
Registration Number:    HO107
Piece/Folio:    696/11
Affiliate Record Type:    Institution
GS Film Number:    
Digital Folder Number:    101720665
Image Number:    00106

Household    Role    Gender    Age    Birthplace
John Addams        M    35-39    Middlesex
Mary Addams        F    35-39    
Mary Addams        F    15-19    Middlesex
Sarah Addams        F    15-19    Middlesex
Harriett Addams        F    10    Middlesex
Eliza Addams        F    10    Middlesex
John Addams        M    9    Middlesex
Margarett Addams        F    6    Middlesex
Francis Addams        M    4    Middlesex
Jane Addams        F    2    Middlesex

 

Citing this Record:
"England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQVG-CVV : 30 October 2015), Sarah Addams in household of John Addams, St George, Middlesex, England; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.

Answer 1

I thought that it would have been unusual to have the whole family listed together on a workhouse census unless they were employed there, normally the men and women were separated . I looked them up on Ancestry where as luck would have it the family name is mistranscribed as Andrews

Same reference Class: HO107; Piece: 696; Book: 3; Civil Parish: St George Middlesex; County: Middlesex; Enumeration District: 5; Folio: 11; Page: 15; 

It isn't an institution.   Greenbank is the name of a road, described in the schedule, as

'The North side of Greenbank from [Aucher?] and Hope Alley to Old Gravel Lane' and the South side of Greenbank, from Queen's Head Alley to Old Gravel, Lane'

John is described as a [sorry, illegible to me] Police.  His next door neighbours include labourers, lightermen and watermen.

Here's Greenbank on an 1898 map http://maps.nls.uk/view/101201661

oops, Martin has already answered with much the same

 

Comments

Never mind. :-)

I traced it on Ancestry by the census reference numbers, since I couldn't find the name.

I'm pretty sure it says Thames policeman. There was a river police force and the place fits.

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I think you are right and it makes sense.  It's also just dawned on me that it would be  Anchor and Hope Alley (undoubtedly a pub name like the Queen's Head)

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Apparently 62 Anchor and Hope Alley was a beerseller's.  There was another Anchor and Hope pub in Watney Street

http://pubshistory.com/LondonPubs/StGeorgeEast/

Answer 2

Some info here  http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Stepney/

Answer 3

If it is a household than it can't be a workhouse. They listed males and females separately.

I've finally found it on Ancestry. That family Addams are all together in one dwelling (no-one else). Green Bank is a street name, since enumerator's description includes "North side Green Bank"

There is no mention of an institution.