Addition to Remembrance Gardens
Further photos of War Memorials have been added to Remembrance Gardens. Continue reading Addition to Remembrance Gardens
Category: Places
Remembrance Garden
Brentford Library Boston Manor Road Locally listed Remembrance Garden at the library contains cenotaph and other War memorials. War Memorial Locally Listed as “Brentford War Memorial, High Street”, needs to be amended as it was moved to the grounds of Brentford Library in 2008 from the ground of St Lawrence’s. [mapsmarker marker=”110″] Continue reading Remembrance Garden
Brentford Library
Boston Manor Road Library built in 1903 Grade II statutory listed. In St Paul’s Conservation Area. English Heritage Listing Library. 1903 by T H Nowell Parr, builder Joseph Dorey and Co; for Brentford District Council; benefactor Andrew Carnegie. Yellow stock brick in English bond with terracotta dressings; Welsh slate roof with tile ridges. 2 storey central block of 3 bays flanked by single-storey wings. Plinth; … Continue reading Brentford Library
Methodist Church
Clifden Road TW8 0PB Built in 1963 as a church. Locally listed. In St Paul’s Conservation Area. History Built 1963 and thought to be a good example of its type. Some stained glass from the previous Victorian building is incorporated into the 60s building. Further Information Methodist Church [mapsmarker marker=”108″] Continue reading Methodist Church
Brentford Swimming Baths
Clifden Road
Swimming baths built in 1895, now part residential, part vacant needing extensive work.
Grade II Statutory Listed.
On English Heritage “At Risk” Register
In St Paul’s Conservation Area.
English Heritage Listing
Public baths. 1895-6 by T Nowell Parr (District Surveyor) for Brentford Urban District Council, builder J Barnes; later additions and alterations.
Entrance elevation and right return block of red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings; otherwise stock brick in Flemish bond with red brick dressings. Welsh slate roofs. Red brick chimneys. Plinth with roll-moulded coping. Entrance elevation: one storey; 4 bays, progressively stepped forward (from left) and having door, window, door, window, the entrance bays narrower. The doors are in internal porches which have ashlar architraves with imposts and keyed archivolts with ashlar panels over (now cemented) and, inside, half-glazed panelled double doors with overlights which have wooden mullions and transoms and leaded, coloured, glazing. Continue reading “Brentford Swimming Baths”
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”
Clifden House Garden Wall
This wall lies behind the Methodist Church on Clifden Rd, running along the backs of the gardens on the south side of Hamilton Road and the north of Clifden Road. There may also be some more visible behind the houses on Brook Road South where there’s a car park too.
This is likely to have been the garden wall of Clifden House, built for Viscount Clifden in the late 18th century. The garden ran the length of what is now Clifden Road and the Brook looks as though it was blocked at both ends to make a garden feature, (See tithe map of 1839, following the brook). Continue reading “Clifden House Garden Wall”
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
Station House
Brentford Railway Station Station Approach TW8 8DT Built 1840 or earlier. Locally listed. In St Paul’s Conservation Area. [mapsmarker marker=”102″] Continue reading Station House
The History of Brentford 