39-40 Albany Road
Residences built c19th century In St Paul’s Conservation Area. History Numbers 39 to 45 are built in imitation stone that is residue from the Gas Works. [mapsmarker marker=”129″] Continue reading 39-40 Albany Road
Category: House
Ealing Road
18th century houses and possibly originally pubs/shops. History Group of c18th century houses and cottages. Pictures show numbers 63-65, 83-85, and 143-145 as examples. [mapsmarker marker=”122″] Continue reading Ealing Road
New Road
Residences built 18th and early 19th century. History Group of pretty two-storey 18th century and early 19th century cottages in generally good order. [mapsmarker marker=”121″] Continue reading New Road
33-37 Half Acre
TW8 8BH
18th and 19th century residential and nursery (previously school)
Locally listed as 33-37 Half Acre
In St Paul’s Conservation Area.
History
Group of early Victorian buildings and one 18th century. Continue reading “33-37 Half Acre”
Somerset Road
(east side) Residences built early 20th century. In St Paul’s Conservation Area. History Groups of early 20c houses. Some on North side with interesting “teddy bear ears” porch detail. The flats on the far north east corner were built 1939 and replaced houses like those towards the Butts. [mapsmarker marker=”113″] Continue reading Somerset Road
Inverness Lodge
Boston Manor Road
Residence built early 19th century, now social club.
Locally listed.
In St Paul’s Conservation Area.
History
Early 19c. Occupied by a Henry Kendall in 1853 although the building seems to be older than that.
1854 was a private nursing home for ‘mentally defective patients’ run by Dr Gardiner Hill. Lady Rosina Bulwer Lytton, wife of Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Lord Lytton the Colonial Secretary was sent there for 3 weeks that year. Continue reading “Inverness Lodge”
Hamilton Road
Residences, both Victorian and Edwardian.
In St Paul’s Conservation Area.
History
Groups of attractive villas and houses. Some have cast iron posts on the corners of the windows like some in Whitestile Road and O’Riordan’s Tavern.
No 17 is four stories with impressive steps up to the front door with window above. Continue reading “Hamilton Road”
1-12 Windmill Road
Site of Sarah Trimmer’s house Residences built early 19th century. In St Paul’s Conservation Area. History Group of six early 19c houses, Tuscan style, white render. Built on the site of Sarah Trimmer’s house (wife of a local businessman and a leading educationalist of her time. died 1810). At one time there was a name plaque showing Trimmer Villas and there is a section of … Continue reading 1-12 Windmill Road
13-17 Windmill Road
Edwardian residence. In St Paul’s Conservation Area. History Group of three, 3-4 storey houses that are on the 1894 OS map. Marked “Blenheim Villa” and Hambledon House”. [mapsmarker marker=”103″] Continue reading 13-17 Windmill Road
Victorian Shops
(now cottages) Windmill Road Shops built around 19th century, now residences. History Row of Victorian shops that are now cottages. They seem to be three stories high at the back as it seems the road level was raised to build the railway bridge in the 1840s. Other cottages, built around the same time, continue along Orchard Rd opposite. [mapsmarker marker=”101″] Continue reading Victorian Shops
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