Wimbledon

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Belvedere Drive

House by Ernest George & Yeates, 1901; a nearly symmetrical Queen Anne front

Canizaro Road

Cannizaro Park In contrast to the wilds of Wimbledon Common next door, Cannizaro Park has highly manicured gardens that are packed with horticultural treats.. A grand entrance flanked by neat and colourful flowerbeds leads to the house. lawns sweep down towards an impressive variety of trees, including unusual Chilean firebush, sassafras, cork oak, loquat, mulberry and pomegranate, and a lovely laburnum walk. Snowdrops and crocuses are in bloom at the very start of the year, and a daffodil walk is worth the trip in April, when the azalea dell will be sparking into its annual blaze of colour. The rose garden and an abundance of summer bedding follow on until the autumn colour takes up the baton. The spring bulbs and summer bedding schemes in the sunken garden and walled garden beside the house are usually well thought out and cleverly colour-schemed. There are performances for children by the Polka Theatre in the Italian Garden, while Wimbledon Art College stages a sculpture show each year.

Copse Hill

Christ Church. Teulon 1859

Vicarage 1964

Crooked Billet

A delightfully haphazard collection of c18 and c19 cottages face a small green

15 Crooked Billet.  Early 18^thhouse, which became a pub in the 1750s. Ghost of an Irishwoman in the cellar

6 Hand in Hand. Once a bakery, this pub - dating from 1865 – had a beer only  icence until 1974, when it was taken over by Young's and a full licence was given. It has a horseshoe-shaped bar and several drinking areas. The shady garden is popular in summer, when the green provides extra drinking space.

Cinque cottages built c.1770

Edge Hill

Jesuit College.  1860.  Church of the Sacred Heart.  14th century style, 1895

Wimbledon College, run by Rev. Bradlau.  Anglican Prep, Military Academy 1894.  Boys’ school run by Jesuits, 1944 Crammer.  1969 comp.  1860 original Teulon building. Schoolhouse, Gothic mansion, dormitories.  Hall burnt down in 1977.  Gym 1883 is now library

The Firs, T.Hayley

Hanford Row

Cottages

Cannizaro House.  Old peoples' home.  Grounds open to the public.  Museum was there now at Leningrad, banker wrote it for Jane Wood in the hope that she would marry Viscount Melville.  Lavish.

Lauriston Road

1 handsome asymmetrical arts and crafts. Robert Graves was born here

9 arts and crafts house Sir Ernest George

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15 Cumnor 1891

17 Hereford House

Lingfield Road

Village club and hall

42; 43

Murray Road

Wimbledon Columns - main drainage ventilation pipes. One remains the junction with the Common.. probably installed by William Santo Crimp Engineer to the Wimbledon Local 1881- 1890. the Wimbledon Sewage Farm was then in a bad state, and Crimp set out to remedy this.with ventilation pipes, carried up trees, houses or other convenient objects, or by specially constructed lamp-posts,

South Side

King's College School.  Public school for King's College, lots of famous pupils, came from Somerset House.  Strand in 1897, Gothic Revival Hall.

Hexagonal pillar box

Wright's Alley

Catholic College 1793 Captain Marryat;

Gothic Lodge home of Lady Anne Barnard authoress

4 South Lodge Rushmere

5 Features in films 'Felicia’s Journey’.

Government House Georgian;

Lauriston House.  Wilberforce 1718/92; staircase by Angelica Kauffman

Ridgeway

Means bridle track part of Scorpio’s claw

70 violent polychrome brick

54 1908

The Downs

17 Adult Education Centre. Remaining examples of substantial later c 19 mansions, c. 1890, large and eclectic, with some Gothic detail and a polygonal turret over the entrance

West Side

13 Berkeley House a more original house. 1894 by James Ransome, now sadly hemmed in, a nice, freely detailed building with shaped gable to the road and a side elevation. For Viscount Melville, the house was much enlarged in the later c 19 and rebuilt or repaired after a fire in 1900 m a lavish, rather Baroque neo-Georgian. Thirteen bays wide, the center with two orders of columns and a big pediment. The grounds laid out in the later c 18 are now a public park

Stamford House1720 dated by Cooke. Three storeys, five bays.

The Keir built in 1789, stuccoed, with a Grecian porch with closed sides. In the grounds the remains of a small R.C. chapel built in 1838. The surviving parts were the priest's living quarters

Chester House.  Home of Horne Tooke

West Side House. Georgian altered

Woodhayes Road

2-3 Southside House.  School Teachers Central Foundation.   Clocktower.  Wrought Iron Gate with date. Fire insurance plate.  Early grand suburban house. Semi detached. Has a facade of 1687 incorporating an earlier building, extended and altered in 1776.  Built by Robert Pennington for his family after his son had died of the plague.

2; 4; 18^th five-bay houses, each with a slightly projecting, pedimented three-bay centre. Brick and rubbed brick. Tuscan doorways. 4 has its original glazing bars.

6 Gothic Lodge. Is indeed in Gothick style, with pretty ogee-arched and crocketed heads to the upper windows. The date 1763 on a lead pump-head. Original staircase and some chimneypieces. The house was much enlarged c. 1880-90

Southside is stable block of house where Wilberforce lived and is still there;

Hand in Hand Pub.  17th.