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Harrow Roxteth

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Bessborough Road

Roxteth Farmhouse. Further on the edge of playing fields and so stillwith a rural air, an appealing earlyc18 front, weatherboarded, with five sash-windows; one laterbay.

CunninghamHouse. Less obtrusive, 1975 by Green, Lloyd & Adams for the Harrow BuildingSociety

Byron Hill Road

Baptist Church, plain stock brick Gothic of 1862 and 1872.  In other use.

Byron Hill House,  extensions of 1887 for J. T. Prior are now surrounded by new development,

Middle Road

60-66 1887 E.S.Prior.  a row of highly picturesque cottages with quirky porches and tilehanging alternating with roughcast.

Cottages - plain earlier c 19 and villas further down the hill underline how much the vernacular revival of 60-66 was a conscious reaction against the immediate past

John Lyon School. Dominates.  It was established to serve the local needs no longer fulfilled by the older foundation.  The original building of 1876 by H. M. Burton,  later, plainer buildings in dark brick by Sheppard Robson & Partners, 1973, 1981, 1989.

Red House. Occupied by John Lyon School. Its substantial back addition is of 1883-5 by E. S. Prior for his brother John T. Prior. 

Roxeth

Means spring where the rocks drain

Cunningham House

Shaftesbury Circle

J.J. Moon's

Summer Road:

St Peter

Watford Road

231 John Lyon



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