Wanstead

       This post has not been finished, is not edited or checked

Blake Hall Road

Temple with ionic portico at the back from Wanstead House

Buckingham Road

One of a group of county related names

Cambridge Park

Our Lady Of Lourdes R.C.. 1927-8 byGeoffrey Raymond of Scales & Raymond, the aisles completed1934 and 1940. 

Methodist Church. Built as a Methodist Free Church by Frederick Boreham, 1875, small but elaborate. 

Hall

Eastern Avenue

Reydon Hall. Seven bays, 18^th brick front.

Elm Hall. 18^th   divided in the 1920s.  . Earlier 18^th 

Wanstead Station.  14^th December  1947. Between Woodford and Redbridge on the Central Line. Sited opposite George Green. A good design of 1937-8 by Charles Holden completed after the war with the original intentions, crisp box-like exterior faced with grey tiles.

George Green

Jubilee Fountain on the corner

Gloucester Road

One of a group of county related names

Grove Park

Grove Park and The Avenue, laid out in 1889 with comfortably large houses by Pons, Sulman & co

Wanstead Grove, big house, now demolished stood near the junction of the two roads. It was built by Sir Francis Dashwood, and rebuilt in 1822. Extensive formal grounds included a long canal from

Pond. Remnant survival of Wanstead Grove.

2 a house of 1890 with much sgraffito decoration, and a plaque commemorating the astronomer royal, James Bradley 1762, whose research was encouraged by his uncle, rector of Wanstead. Bradley set up his telescope in a house near here.

Grosvenor Road

The Shrubbery is a group of flats, around a cedar tree, c. 1930 Cockett, Henderson & Gillow for North East London Properties Co. 

Hereford Road

Hermon Hill

Holy Trinity, Neo-Norman. 1886-7 by James Fowler. 

Temporary iron church remains acquired from St Michael, Camden Town and erected in 1882.

Hall 1907, domestic.

Hermon Hill Methodist Church. 1876. Ragstone front with Geometric tracery windows

High Street

6-8 a pair of rural cottages at right angles to the street, brick and weather boarded.

27 Hadley House local

Snaresbrook Station .  22^ndAugust 1856. Between Leytonstone and South Woodford on the Central Line. Built in 1856 by the Eastern Counties Railway on the Loughton Railway. The original station house of 1856 survives and the canopy spandrels on the up side platform have a remarkable resemblance to locomotive wheels. In 1893 the station was enlarged with a bay platform and partly rebuilt and some buildings from this period survive and another entrance added in 1903. In  1929 the name was changed to ‘Snaresbrook for Wanstead’.  In 1947 it became part of the Central Line and was rebuilt with a new ticket hall on the west side.  It was then renamed ‘Snaresbrook’. Some buildings and features of this period survive.

Goods yard and sidings. Closed and became a car park in 1947.

159 George. Grandiose corner pub, opposite Wanstead Station, has a marble porch, and partly frosted windows. There are a number of distinct drinking areas, one just by the main door even has a library. This pub is a celebration for all Georges - many famous Georges abound, not to forget St George. On the site an 18^th inn, rebuilt 1904 by A.J. Bywater, as a plaque explains three copper turrets on corner bays. Tablet dated 1752, and portrait medallion of George III. Curly ironwork. Some engraved glass. It was the ‘George and Dragon’ from 1716 but rebuilt in 1962 – there is an inscription about a cherry pie

Church School, founded 1796, unassuming buildings now mostly of 1980, but with the teacher's house remaining, 1840-1 by Blore, with a bellcote.

War Memorial Tall plinth with bronze angel of Victory signed by N.A. Trent

Hollybush Hill

Drinking Fountain. At the junction with Wanstead High Street. 1872 with shingled spirelet for the 1897 Jubilee a triangular composition with three brick arches two water taps and a trough.

Leicester Road

New Wanstead

Weavers Almshouses.Built 1857 by Joseph Jennings. Simple two-storey ranges with a centrepiece plus the weavers’ arms with their motto 'weave truth with trust', and reset plaques of 1824 and 1851. The buildings replaced foundations at Shoreditch of 1670 and Spitalfields 1729.  They were threatened with demolition in the 1970s, and instead, interiors were remodelled by EG. Dobson and H.M. Grellier & Son. who added a parallel range behind, with a central community room.

Nightingale Lane

Nightingale

79 Duke of Edinburgh. Hard-to-find back-street pub in the wilds of outer London. The wall panelling creates the impression of an older pub. Shove-ha'penny table

United Reformed Church. 1864-7, built for Congregationalist strongest 19th Free Church in Wanstead. It made use of stuff from St Luke, Kings Cross, a Gothic church demolished for St Pancras station

Grove Hall,1895-6 with open timber roof. Original school room of Cromwell Hall, rebuilt

Nutter Lane:

Applegarth 1710. Home of Nutter family

Rutland Road

One of a group of county related names

Snaresbrook

'Place by the brook in or near which traps were set’. Recorded thus in 1599 and on the OS map of 1805.  From Middle English broke 'brook' with an uncertain first element, possibly a surname or Middle English snare 'a snare or trap for catching wild animals and birds'. The small stream here flowed into the River Roding; and there is still a piece of water at Snaresbrook known as Eagle Pond from the Eagle Inn which was earlier Snares pond on Rocque's map. On this same map the brook itself is marked as Sayesbrook, perhaps an alternative name and clearly to be associated with a tenement called Sayes 1383 and with the 19th-century field names Great & little Seds. All these would seem to derive from a different Middle English name Say recorded in nearby Essex parishes from the 13th century.  It is an old part of Wanstead.

Spratt Green was then Christ Church Green bought by Local Board as a park in 1860

Spratt Hall Road

Library by D. Meyer and B. Ettridge of Redbridge Architect's Dept. Single storey. .

Churchill Hall, meeting room.

Police Station of 1886 by John Butler, standing out here because of its brick

The Avenue

Grove Park and The Avenue, laid out in 1889 with comfortably large houses by Pons, Sulman & co

14 Temple House.Garden temple 1730-40. Elegant timber Ionic portico which originally looked over the canal. Possibly 1730s by the then owner, Matthew Wymondesold, who extended the gardens. His connections support an attribution to Colen Campbell.

20 remains of Wanstead House Gardens.  tree house at the back and brick built Gazebo on a cruciform base from Wanstead Grove. may be the summerhouse referred to in a report pof 1713. Red brick with straight-headed sash windows.  Interior with corner fireplace. It is built on a mound, and beneath, its brick vault was originally decorated with iron slag

Wanstead

'Place by a lump or hillock' .  ‘Wcenstede’ c.1050, ‘Wenstede’ 1066, ‘Wenesteda' 1086. Possibly 'place by a tumour-shaped mound', from Old English 'wen’, alternatively place where wagons are kept' if the first element is rather Old English warn 'wagon'.

Wanstead High Street 

Sheriden House next door holder

17^th and eighteenth century houses, attesting to the prosperity of Wanstead, 1962 neglected and in decay 

Manor House is now West Essex Conservative Club, early 18^th. Twice-life-size bronze of Churchill in front, presented by French and Italian admirers and inscribed ‘giant of England'. It emerges incongruously from a stone plinth brought from old Waterloo Bridge. The house is 18^thin general appearance, though upper parts were rebuilt. 

Two 18^th houses are adjacent with shops built out in front, but at the rear is an 18^th doorcase with carved brackets.

Shire Hall 75, derelict 1952

Cuckfield Hotel no.31 Notable Edwardian skylight and windows with ‘Wenlock’ on them

50, a new block with six apartments, by PCKO Architects, 2002-3, set back from the street, with a pool in the forecourt. 

Wanstead Place

Christ church. In a leafy corner of the green An 1860s chapel of ease, built by the rector of Wanstead, Rev. W.P. Wigram, brother of the Bishop of Rochester, whose diocese included this area at the time and were the sons of the shipbuilder. 

Church Hall, c.1970.

47, a 19^thtile-hung house with gable

39-41 c.1840.

The former Town Hall, now a Health Clinic, was built as the local Board of Works in 1881 by its surveyor, J. T. Bressey. Grey brick.

Red Cross Centre is the former Fire Station. With doors for two engines, the fire hose tower looking like an overblown chimney.

Warwick Road

One of a group of county related names

Joseph Barratt junior school, 1946 called Warwick and secondary modern

11 Medium-sized cottage style garden with perennials, shrubs and roses. Lawn with path that winds it's way to an arched garden area. Large pond.

24 Small garden divided into rooms. Archways lead to areas displaying over 300 varieties of fuchsias set amongst trees, shrubs and perennial plants.

Wellesley Road:

Telephone exchange 1902 National Telephone Co GPO 1912

Wellington Road:

Baptist Church iron church in 1894 1904 vestry etc.

Wanstead Lake House birthplace of poet Tom Hood 087, son of the more famous poet.

Woodbine Place

Tree House Nursery School school of 1912 by Whitmore, Essex County Architect, now. Single storey; two adjacent classrooms .