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Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings

2020-11-06T11:25:29Z

KeithAtkinson:

[http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk The Teddington Society]'s [[Planning Group]] is working with the [[History Group]] to assemble this Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings in Teddington.

<big>1) '''BTMs''':</big> These are so designated by the local Council because of their significance to the history and character of the local environment although they are not of sufficient interest to warrant statutory listing. For more information about BTMs and Council policy see the Council's [http://www.richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/listed_buildings/locally_listed_buildings.htm Buildings of Townscape Merit webpage]. We appreciate LBRuT's co-operation and support compiling this Directory and permitting the link.
A list of the BTMs of Teddington sorted by Post Code can be found [http://www.teddsoc-wiki.org.uk/wiki/documentsfordownload/BTMs_Teddington_by_Postcode.xls here] (xls, 132Kb).

<big>2) '''Listed Buildings''':</big> These are selected by Historic England (previously English Heritage). These have been included in each road where they exist together with images and descriptions. Click to see a [[:Category:Listed Buildings|list of Listed Buildings]] in Teddington.

<big>3) '''Teddington''':</big> Click to see a [[A Guide to the Streets of Teddington]]. This is a Map of Post Code TW11 - The Teddington Society consider Teddington to be TW11 plus the south side of Waldegrave Park & the Field End estate.

<big>4) '''Conservation Areas''':</big> Click to see a [http://www.richmond.gov.uk/conservation_area_map-2.pdf Map of Local Conservation Areas]. The Conservation Areas are shown with purple vertical hatching and the map can be enlarged as needed.

<big>5) '''1841-1901 Census of Teddington''':</big> Click to access login page for [http://www.teddsoc-wiki.org.uk/census_login.htm 1841-1901 Census of Teddington].

<big>'''You can explore this Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings in Teddington by clicking on the road links below.'''</big>
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* [[Adelaide Road]]
* [[Admiralty Road]]
* [[Albert Road, Teddington]]
* [[Anlaby Road]]
* [[Avenue Road]]
* [[Blackmore's Grove]]
* [[Blandford Road]]
* [[Bridgeman Road]]
* [[Broad Street]]
* [[Broom Close]]
* [[Broom Park]]
* [[Broom Road]]
* [[Broom Water]]
* [[Broom Water West]]
* [[Bushy Park]]
* [[Cambridge Road]]
* [[The Causeway]]
* [[The Cedars]]
* [[Church Road, Teddington]]
* [[Clarence Road, Teddington]]
* [[Connaught Road]]
* [[Cromwell Road]]
* [[Elfin Grove]]
* [[Fairfax Road]]
* [[Ferry Road]]
* [[Fieldend]]
</td><td align=left valign=top width=20%>
* [[Field Lane]]
* [[Gloucester Road, Teddington]]
* [[Grove Terrace]]
* [[The Grove]]
* [[Hampton Road, Teddington]]
* [[High Street, Teddington]]
* [[Holmesdale Road, Teddington]]
* [[King Edward's Grove]]
* [[King's Road]]
* [[Kingston Lane]]
* [[Kingston Road]]
* [[Langham Road]]
* [[Linden Grove]]
* [[Lock Houses, Teddington Lock]]
* [[Manor Road]]
* [[Mays Road]]
* [[Meadow Cottages]]
* [[Melbourne Road]]
* [[Middle Lane]]
* [[New Kelvin Avenue]]
* [[Oxford Road]]
* [[Park Lane, Teddington]]
* [[Park Road, Teddington]]
* [[Park Street]]
* [[Princes Road]]
* [[Queen's Road, Teddington]]
</td><td align=left valign=top width=20%>
* [[Royal Road]]
* [[Sandy Lane]]
* [[Schoolhouse Lane]]
* [[Shacklegate Lane]]
* [[Somerset Road]]
* [[St Alban's Gardens]]
* [[St Mark's Road]]
* [[St Winifred's Road]]
* [[Stanley Road]]
* [[Station Road, Teddington]]
* [[Teddington Park]]
* [[Teddington Park Road]]
* [[Trowlock Avenue]]
* [[Twickenham Road, Teddington]]
* [[Udney Park Road]]
* [[Vicarage Road, Teddington]]
* [[Victoria Road, Teddington]]
* [[Waldegrave Park]]
* [[Waldegrave Road]]
* [[Walpole Crescent]]
* [[Walpole Road]]
* [[Wick Road]]
* [[Wilcox Road]]
* [[Windsor Road]]

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This Directory is being assembled by a team of Teddington Society Members. The BTM notes have been prepared by Ann Miller, Gilly Hughes, Hilary Marshall & Ken Howe who are bringing this local history to life again by describing Teddington's BTMs - Buildings of Townscape Merit.

Brian Bolam is extracting from both Teddington Society publications & Historic England (Was English Heritage) records - with their approval & encouragement - descriptions related to Teddington's Listed Buildings.Brian also took many of the site's photographs.

The Census Transcripts are being prepared by Roger Theobald, Mike Woods & Susan Ashley Blake

The narrative and photos are being uploaded onto this Wiki-Directory. Colin Hicks constructed the website and provides technical assistance.
Keith Atkinson is co-ordinating the project. If you would like to volunteer to help or have suggestions on content please email Keith at [mailto:kandn.atkinson@gmail.com kandn.atkinson@gmail.com]. Additional contributions both from owners and occupiers of these very special buildings and also from all fellow Teddingtonians are most welcome!

Our main website, ''[http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk]'', gives a lot of information about The Teddington Society including details of how to become a member ([http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk/join/join.php Join the Society])

[[Category:BTMs]]

Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings

2020-11-06T11:24:19Z

KeithAtkinson:

[http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk The Teddington Society]'s [[Planning Group]] is working with the [[History Group]] to assemble this Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings in Teddington.

<big>1) '''BTMs''':</big> These are so designated by the local Council because of their significance to the history and character of the local environment although they are not of sufficient interest to warrant statutory listing. For more information about BTMs and Council policy see the Council's [http://www.richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/listed_buildings/locally_listed_buildings.htm Buildings of Townscape Merit webpage]. We appreciate LBRuT's co-operation and support compiling this Directory and permitting the link.
A list of the BTMs of Teddington sorted by Post Code can be found [http://www.teddsoc-wiki.org.uk/wiki/documentsfordownload/BTMs_Teddington_by_Postcode.xls here] (xls, 132Kb).

<big>2) '''Listed Buildings''':</big> These are selected by Historic England (previously English Heritage). These have been included in each road where they exist together with images and descriptions. Click to see a [[:Category:Listed Buildings|list of Listed Buildings]] in Teddington.

<big>3) '''Teddington''':</big> Click to see a [[A Guide to the Streets of Teddington]]. This is a Map of Post Code TW11 - The Teddington Society consider Teddington to be TW11 plus the south side of Waldegrave Park & the Field End estate.

<big>4) '''Conservation Areas''':</big> Click to see a [http://www.richmond.gov.uk/conservation_area_map-2.pdf Map of Local Conservation Areas]. The Conservation Areas are shown with purple vertical hatching and the map can be enlarged as needed.

<big>5) '''1841-1901 Census of Teddington''':</big> Click to access login page for [http://www.teddsoc-wiki.org.uk/census_login.htm 1841-1901 Census of Teddington].

<big>'''You can explore this Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings in Teddington by clicking on the road links below.'''</big>
<center>
<table width=100%><tr>
<td align=left valign=top width=20%>
[[File:Houses_of_Teddington.jpg|160px|thumb|left|[http://www.lisatolley.com www.lisatolley.com]]]
</td>
<td align=left valign=top width=20%>
* [[Adelaide Road]]
* [[Admiralty Road]]
* [[Albert Road, Teddington]]
* [[Anlaby Road]]
* [[Avenue Road]]
* [[Blackmore's Grove]]
* [[Blandford Road]]
* [[Bridgeman Road]]
* [[Broad Street]]
* [[Broom Close]]
* [[Broom Park]]
* [[Broom Road]]
* [[Broom Water]]
* [[Broom Water West]]
* [[Bushy Park]]
* [[Cambridge Road]]
* [[The Causeway]]
* [[The Cedars]]
* [[Church Road, Teddington]]
* [[Clarence Road, Teddington]]
* [[Connaught Road]]
* [[Cromwell Road]]
* [[Elfin Grove]]
* [[Fairfax Road]]
* [[Ferry Road]]
* [[Fieldend]]
</td><td align=left valign=top width=20%>
* [[Field Lane]]
* [[Gloucester Road, Teddington]]
* [[Grove Terrace]]
* [[The Grove]]
* [[Hampton Road, Teddington]]
* [[High Street, Teddington]]
* [[Holmesdale Road, Teddington]]
* [[King Edward's Grove]]
* [[King's Road]]
* [[Kingston Lane]]
* [[Kingston Road]]
* [[Langham Road]]
* [[Linden Grove]]
* [[Lock Houses, Teddington Lock]]
* [[Manor Road]]
* [[Mays Road]]
* [[Meadow Cottages]]
* [[Melbourne Road]]
* [[Middle Lane]]
* [[New Kelvin Avenue]]
* [[Oxford Road]]
* [[Park Lane, Teddington]]
* [[Park Road, Teddington]]
* [[Park Street]]
* [[Princes Road]]
* [[Queen's Road, Teddington]]
</td><td align=left valign=top width=20%>
* [[Royal Road]]
* [[Sandy Lane]]
* [[Schoolhouse Lane]]
* [[Shacklegate Lane]]
* [[Somerset Road]]
* [[St Alban's Gardens]]
* [[St Mark's Road]]
* [[St Winifred's Road]]
* [[Stanley Road]]
* [[Station Road, Teddington]]
* [[Teddington Park]]
* [[Teddington Park Road]]
* [[Trowlock Avenue]]
* [[Twickenham Road, Teddington]]
* [[Udney Park Road]]
* [[Vicarage Road, Teddington]]
* [[Victoria Road, Teddington]]
* [[Waldegrave Park]]
* [[Waldegrave Road]]
* [[Walpole Crescent]]
* [[Walpole Road]]
* [[Wick Road]]
* [[Wilcox Road]]
* [[Windsor Road]]

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<td align=left valign=top width=20%>
[[File:Houses_of_Teddington2.jpg|160px|thumb|right|[http://www.lisatolley.co.uk www.lisatolley.co.uk]]]
</td></tr></table>
</center>
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This Directory is being assembled by a team of Teddington Society Members. The BTM notes have been prepared by Ann Miller, Gilly Hughes, Hilary Marshall & Ken Howe who are bringing this local history to life again by describing Teddington's BTMs - Buildings of Townscape Merit.

Brian Bolam is extracting from both Teddington Society publications & Historic England (Was English Heritage) records - with their approval & encouragement - descriptions related to Teddington's Listed Buildings.Brian also took many of the site's photographs.

The Census Transcripts are being prepared by Roger Theobald, Mike Woods & Susan Ashley Blake

The narrative and photos are being uploaded onto this Wiki-Directory. Colin Hicks constructed the website and provides technical assistance.
Keith Atkinson is co-ordinating the project. If you would like to volunteer to help or have suggestions on content please email Keith at [mailto:kandn.atkinson@gmail.com kandn.atkinson@gmail.com]. Additional contributions both from owners and occupiers of these very special buildings and also from all fellow Teddingtonians are most welcome!

Our main website, ''[http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk]'', gives a lot of information about The Teddington Society including details of how to become a member ([http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk/join/join.php Join the Society])

[[Category:BTMs]]

Kingston Road "Church of the Sacred Heart"

2019-04-24T13:40:25Z

KeithAtkinson: Created page with "To be completed"

To be completed

Kingston Road

2019-04-24T13:39:16Z

KeithAtkinson:

Kingston Road

2019-04-24T13:36:33Z

KeithAtkinson:

Broom Road, "The Anchorage Boathouse"

2019-04-24T13:25:14Z

KeithAtkinson: Created page with "The Anchorage Boathouse, Broom Road '''Road''': Broom Road '''Property''': "The Anchorage Boathouse"..."

[[File:Broom_Rd_The_Anchorage Boathouse.jpg|200px|thumb|left|The Anchorage Boathouse, Broom Road]]

'''Road''': [[Broom Road]]

'''Property''': "The Anchorage Boathouse"

At the corner of Broom Road & [[Broom Water]] this is a large red-brick detached house, with a small turret.
The Anchorage Boathouse is behind a high wall next to the main house.

Both the house and boathouse are Buildings of Townscape Merit and form part of the Broom Water Conservation Area."

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This page is part of the [[Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings]] in Teddington assembled by the [[Planning Group|Planning]] and [[History Group|History]] Groups of [http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk/ The Teddington Society]. Click on any photo for a higher resolution version. Copyright for the material on this page rests with the contributor.

[[Category:BTMs]]
[[Category:Buildings]]

Broom Road

2019-04-24T13:21:44Z

KeithAtkinson:

This page is part of the [[Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings]] in Teddington assembled by the [[Planning Group|Planning]] and [[History Group|History]] Groups of [http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk The Teddington Society]. You can view {{PAGENAME}} on [http://g.co/maps/rx9bd Google Maps].

"One of the ancient roads in Teddington previously called Lower Teddington Road and also Green Lane. Had some of the most expensive houses in the village in the 1870s. This is a long road leading from Teddington Lock to Kingston. Was once an access to many large houses built along the river bank but few of them remain." (Note on 1970s TeddSoc Survey).

The properties in this road designated by the Council on their [http://www.richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/listed_buildings/locally_listed_buildings.htm website]
as Buildings of Townscape Merit are:

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width=100%
|
* [[Broom Road 1]]
* [[Broom Road 3, "The Anglers"]]
* [[Broom Road, "Weir Cottage"]]
* [[Broom Road 5, "The Lensbury"]]
* [[Broom Road 4-8]]
|
* [[Broom Road 10]]
* [[Broom Road 17]]
* [[Broom Road, "The Anchorage"]]
* [[Broom Road, "The Anchorage Boathouse"]]
* [[Broom Road 29]]
* [[Broom Road 29abc]]
|
* [[Broom Road 80]] (not a BTM)
* [[Broom Road 82]]
* [[Broom Road 84]]
* [[Broom Road 86]]
* [[Broom Road 88]]
|
* [[Broom Road 90]]
* [[Broom Road 96-98]]
* [[Broom Road 100-102]]
* [[Broom Road 170-182]]
|}

[[Category:BTMs]]
[[Category:Roads]]

Manor Road

2019-02-27T13:41:34Z

KeithAtkinson:

This page is part of the [[Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings]] in Teddington assembled by the [[Planning Group|Planning]] and [[History Group|History]] Groups of [http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk The Teddington Society].
You can view {{PAGENAME}} on [http://g.co/maps/wstsb Google Maps].

This road was laid out after the manor was sold in 1862. As its name suggests it was constructed on part of the Manor estate. The old road from Kingston to Twickenham had originally turned West at [[Ferry Road]] and then turned North along the front of [[Twickenham Road, "St Mary's Church"|St Mary's Church]] along [[Twickenham Road, Teddington|Twickenham Road]].
Manor Road was cut through along the Eastern boundary of St Mary's churchyard, becoming a continuation of the main Kingston to Twickenham road and ran a short distance before crossing [[Twickenham Road, Teddington|Twickenham Road]] where it ran Westward to [[Cambridge Road]]. In about 1970 this crossing was sealed off so that Manor Road is now in two sections (as is [[Twickenham Road, Teddington|Twickenham Road]]). One short section links [[Kingston Road]] until it joins [[Twickenham Road, Teddington|Twickenham Road]]. The other section, Westbound, runs between the old cut off part of [[Twickenham Road, Teddington|Twickenham Road]] up to [[Cambridge Road]].
The road contains a mixture of Victorian houses, inter war developments and post 2nd World War developments, such as those built by Span and Focus 21.

"The Wharf" comes within the Borough's Conservation Area No. 27 and lie on the short section of Manor Road.

The properties in this road designated by the Council on their [http://www.richmond.gov.uk/home/services/planning/listed_buildings/locally_listed_buildings.htm website]
as Buildings of Townscape Merit are:

* [[Manor Road 25-45]]
* [[Manor Road 28-30]]
* [[Manor Road, "The Wharf"]]

[[Category:BTMs]]
[[Category:Roads]]

File:Hampton Rd 48.jpg

2019-01-20T10:23:48Z

KeithAtkinson: KeithAtkinson uploaded a new version of File:Hampton Rd 48.jpg

File:Hampton Rd 48.jpg

2019-01-20T10:18:51Z

KeithAtkinson: KeithAtkinson uploaded a new version of File:Hampton Rd 48.jpg

Hampton Road 46-48

2019-01-20T10:15:53Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:Hampton_Rd_46.jpg|200px|thumb|left|46 Hampton Road]]

[[File:Hampton_Rd_48.jpg|200px|thumb|left|48 Hampton Road]]

'''Road''': [[Hampton Road, Teddington]]

'''Property''': 46-48

Nos. 46-48: Pair of semi-detached villas, 3-storey with basement. Of stock brick and slate. Small modern extension at each end of block. Converted into flats. Built c. 1890.

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This page is part of the [[Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings]] in Teddington assembled by the [[Planning Group|Planning]] and [[History Group|History]] Groups of [http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk/ The Teddington Society]. Click on any photo for a higher resolution version. Copyright for the material on this page rests with the contributor.

[[Category:BTMs]]
[[Category:Buildings|Hampton Road 46]]

Hampton Road 46-48

2019-01-20T09:13:03Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:Hampton_Rd_46.jpg|200px|thumb|left|46 Hampton Road]]

[[File:48HamptonRd.jpg|200px|thumb|left|48 Hampton Road]]

'''Road''': [[Hampton Road, Teddington]]

'''Property''': 46-48

Nos. 46-48: Pair of semi-detached villas, 3-storey with basement. Of stock brick and slate. Small modern extension at each end of block. Converted into flats. Built c. 1890.

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This page is part of the [[Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings]] in Teddington assembled by the [[Planning Group|Planning]] and [[History Group|History]] Groups of [http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk/ The Teddington Society]. Click on any photo for a higher resolution version. Copyright for the material on this page rests with the contributor.

[[Category:BTMs]]
[[Category:Buildings|Hampton Road 46]]

Park Road 19, "Clarence Hotel" currently The Park

2018-12-08T19:41:46Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:The_Park.jpg|200px|thumb|left|"The Park", 19 Park Road]]

[[File:TheParka.jpg|200px|thumb|left|"The Clarence Hotel", 19 Park Road in 1975]]

[[File:The Parkb.jpg|200px|thumb|left|"The Clarence Hotel" 1904]]

[[File:The Parkc.jpg|200px|thumb|left|"The Clarence Hotel" 1905]]

'''Road''': [[Park Road, Teddington]]

'''Property''': 19, "The Park" formerly the Clarence Hotel, Park Road

Listed grade II in 1983 as a building of architectural or historic interest; the listing description is:

'Mid C19, 2-storey large public house. Nine bays wide (2:5:2). Centre bays stand forward and have higher first floor. Stock brick with stucco dressings. Entablatures at first floor and parapet level. Centre bay door and window openings have elaborately enriched dressings.'

This substantial building dates from 1863 and was built on the site of another pub – the Greyhound Inn – which itself dated from 1730. It was also known as the Clarence Arms Inn and briefly the Guildford Arms, named in both cases after the occupants of the nearby Bushy House. The Duke of Clarence was the future King William IV.

In 1823, the post office was here and letters were dispatched daily at "quarter before eight and a quarter before three in the afternoon." The style of the building is distinctly neo-classical French with its imposing first floor and segmental pediments over the windows.

The 1871 census (page ref RG10/866/720/2), 8 years after the hotel was built,
gives two brothers - James and Robert Hale - as the hotel keepers at the
ages of 28 and 27; they have 5 employees: house keeper, barmaid, cook
etc.; they are still running the hotel in 1891 (ref. RG12/617/124/11) with
three servants noted, and by then both have families. James has 2
daughters and a son, whilst Robert a daughter; no wives are recorded in the
census however. In 1901 (ref. RG13/673/30/1) the hotel was run by a
William Wickes - described as 'hotel proprietor' - with his family, and a
much larger staff of 10, two of which were foreign-born - from Germany and
Austria..'

THE PARK HOTEL – TEDDINGTON from Alan Winter in the Twickenham Tribune Dec 8,2018;

"19 Park Road has been the site of various dispensaries of ale and alcohol for nearly 300 years.
Originally an ale house called the Greyhound back in 1729, it became known as the Guilford Arms in 1795.
In 1823, the post office was on this site and letters were dispatched daily at "quarter before eight and a quarter before three in the afternoon." The style of the building is distinctly neo-classical French with its imposing first floor and segmental pediments over the windows.
The pub was renamed after the occupant of the nearby Bushy House; the Duke of Clarence was to become the future King William IV.
The Clarence Arms Inn is shown as trading there in 1860 before being completely re-built in 1863 and later becoming the Clarence Hotel. It temporarily closed for major refurbishment in 2000 and is now known as the Park Hotel which trades as a pub, a restaurant and a hotel.
The Park is a grade II listed building.
The first of our Edwardian postcards shows the hotel as a working stables and of interest is the policeman on the other side of the road. About 60 years later in the 1970s there were still police officers keeping an eye on ‘The Clarence’ on a Friday and Saturday night as it hosted a very popular disco which attracted young people from miles around.
I find the lack of traffic interesting. Of course motor vehicles in any numbers were still twenty or so years away but the road looks as if it is ready for them!"

The Historic England weblink is at:

http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1357755

© Historic England 1952. The National Heritage List for England entry contained in this material was obtained on 15/7/13. The most publicly available up to date National Heritage List Entries can be obtained from www.historicengland.org.uk

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This page is part of the [[Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings]] in Teddington assembled by the [[Planning Group|Planning]] and [[History Group|History]] Groups of [http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk/ The Teddington Society]. Click on any photo for a higher resolution version. Copyright for the material on this page rests with the contributor.

[[Category:Buildings]]
[[Category:Listed Buildings]]

The Teddington Society Wiki

2018-12-08T14:18:49Z

KeithAtkinson:

Welcome to the Wiki for [http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk The Teddington Society].
Please explore the content of this Wiki. Our main website, [http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk], gives a lot of information about The Teddington Society including details of how to become a member ([http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk/join/join.php Join the Society]).

Click below to go to the page on this Wiki for each of the Society's Working Groups:
* [[Corporates Group]]
* [[Gardens Group]]
* [[History Group]]
* [[Planning Group]]
* [[Riverside Group]]
* [[Roads and Transport Group]]
* [[The Environment Group]]

The [[Planning Group|Planning]] and [[History Group|History]] Groups have assembled a [[Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings]] in Teddington.
Work by the History Group is also progressing on an [[Online WW1 War Memorial for Teddington]].

Park Road 19, "Clarence Hotel" currently The Park

2018-12-08T14:13:37Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:The_Park.jpg|200px|thumb|left|"The Park", 19 Park Road]]

[[File:TheParka.jpg|200px|thumb|left|"The Clarence Hotel", 19 Park Road in 1975]]

[[File:The Parkb.jpg|200px|thumb|left|"The Clarence Hotel"]]

[[File:The Parkc.jpg|200px|thumb|left|"The Clarence Hotel"]]

'''Road''': [[Park Road, Teddington]]

'''Property''': 19, "The Park" formerly the Clarence Hotel, Park Road

Listed grade II in 1983 as a building of architectural or historic interest; the listing description is:

'Mid C19, 2-storey large public house. Nine bays wide (2:5:2). Centre bays stand forward and have higher first floor. Stock brick with stucco dressings. Entablatures at first floor and parapet level. Centre bay door and window openings have elaborately enriched dressings.'

This substantial building dates from 1863 and was built on the site of another pub – the Greyhound Inn – which itself dated from 1730. It was also known as the Clarence Arms Inn and briefly the Guildford Arms, named in both cases after the occupants of the nearby Bushy House. The Duke of Clarence was the future King William IV.

In 1823, the post office was here and letters were dispatched daily at "quarter before eight and a quarter before three in the afternoon." The style of the building is distinctly neo-classical French with its imposing first floor and segmental pediments over the windows.

The 1871 census (page ref RG10/866/720/2), 8 years after the hotel was built,
gives two brothers - James and Robert Hale - as the hotel keepers at the
ages of 28 and 27; they have 5 employees: house keeper, barmaid, cook
etc.; they are still running the hotel in 1891 (ref. RG12/617/124/11) with
three servants noted, and by then both have families. James has 2
daughters and a son, whilst Robert a daughter; no wives are recorded in the
census however. In 1901 (ref. RG13/673/30/1) the hotel was run by a
William Wickes - described as 'hotel proprietor' - with his family, and a
much larger staff of 10, two of which were foreign-born - from Germany and
Austria..'

THE PARK HOTEL – TEDDINGTON from Alan Winter in the Twickenham Tribune Dec 8,2018;

"19 Park Road has been the site of various dispensaries of ale and alcohol for nearly 300 years.
Originally an ale house called the Greyhound back in 1729, it became known as the Guilford Arms in 1795.
In 1823, the post office was on this site and letters were dispatched daily at "quarter before eight and a quarter before three in the afternoon." The style of the building is distinctly neo-classical French with its imposing first floor and segmental pediments over the windows.
The pub was renamed after the occupant of the nearby Bushy House; the Duke of Clarence was to become the future King William IV.
The Clarence Arms Inn is shown as trading there in 1860 before being completely re-built in 1863 and later becoming the Clarence Hotel. It temporarily closed for major refurbishment in 2000 and is now known as the Park Hotel which trades as a pub, a restaurant and a hotel.
The Park is a grade II listed building.
The first of our Edwardian postcards shows the hotel as a working stables and of interest is the policeman on the other side of the road. About 60 years later in the 1970s there were still police officers keeping an eye on ‘The Clarence’ on a Friday and Saturday night as it hosted a very popular disco which attracted young people from miles around.
I find the lack of traffic interesting. Of course motor vehicles in any numbers were still twenty or so years away but the road looks as if it is ready for them!"

The Historic England weblink is at:

http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1357755

© Historic England 1952. The National Heritage List for England entry contained in this material was obtained on 15/7/13. The most publicly available up to date National Heritage List Entries can be obtained from www.historicengland.org.uk

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File:The Parkc.jpg

2018-12-08T14:10:00Z

KeithAtkinson:

File:The Parkb.jpg

2018-12-08T14:08:12Z

KeithAtkinson:

Park Road 19, "Clarence Hotel" currently The Park

2018-12-08T14:06:26Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:The_Park.jpg|200px|thumb|left|"The Park", 19 Park Road]]

[[File:TheParka.jpg|200px|thumb|left|"The Clarence Hotel", 19 Park Road in 1975]]

[[File:The Parkb.jpg|200px|thumb|left|"The Clarence Hotel", 19 Park Road in 1975]]

[[File:The Parkc.jpg|200px|thumb|left|"The Clarence Hotel", 19 Park Road in 1975]]

'''Road''': [[Park Road, Teddington]]

'''Property''': 19, "The Park" formerly the Clarence Hotel, Park Road

Listed grade II in 1983 as a building of architectural or historic interest; the listing description is:

'Mid C19, 2-storey large public house. Nine bays wide (2:5:2). Centre bays stand forward and have higher first floor. Stock brick with stucco dressings. Entablatures at first floor and parapet level. Centre bay door and window openings have elaborately enriched dressings.'

This substantial building dates from 1863 and was built on the site of another pub – the Greyhound Inn – which itself dated from 1730. It was also known as the Clarence Arms Inn and briefly the Guildford Arms, named in both cases after the occupants of the nearby Bushy House. The Duke of Clarence was the future King William IV.

In 1823, the post office was here and letters were dispatched daily at "quarter before eight and a quarter before three in the afternoon." The style of the building is distinctly neo-classical French with its imposing first floor and segmental pediments over the windows.

The 1871 census (page ref RG10/866/720/2), 8 years after the hotel was built,
gives two brothers - James and Robert Hale - as the hotel keepers at the
ages of 28 and 27; they have 5 employees: house keeper, barmaid, cook
etc.; they are still running the hotel in 1891 (ref. RG12/617/124/11) with
three servants noted, and by then both have families. James has 2
daughters and a son, whilst Robert a daughter; no wives are recorded in the
census however. In 1901 (ref. RG13/673/30/1) the hotel was run by a
William Wickes - described as 'hotel proprietor' - with his family, and a
much larger staff of 10, two of which were foreign-born - from Germany and
Austria..'

THE PARK HOTEL – TEDDINGTON from Alan Winter in the Twickenham Tribune Dec 8,2018;

"19 Park Road has been the site of various dispensaries of ale and alcohol for nearly 300 years.
Originally an ale house called the Greyhound back in 1729, it became known as the Guilford Arms in 1795.
In 1823, the post office was on this site and letters were dispatched daily at "quarter before eight and a quarter before three in the afternoon." The style of the building is distinctly neo-classical French with its imposing first floor and segmental pediments over the windows.
The pub was renamed after the occupant of the nearby Bushy House; the Duke of Clarence was to become the future King William IV.
The Clarence Arms Inn is shown as trading there in 1860 before being completely re-built in 1863 and later becoming the Clarence Hotel. It temporarily closed for major refurbishment in 2000 and is now known as the Park Hotel which trades as a pub, a restaurant and a hotel.
The Park is a grade II listed building.
The first of our Edwardian postcards shows the hotel as a working stables and of interest is the policeman on the other side of the road. About 60 years later in the 1970s there were still police officers keeping an eye on ‘The Clarence’ on a Friday and Saturday night as it hosted a very popular disco which attracted young people from miles around.
I find the lack of traffic interesting. Of course motor vehicles in any numbers were still twenty or so years away but the road looks as if it is ready for them!"

The Historic England weblink is at:

http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1357755

© Historic England 1952. The National Heritage List for England entry contained in this material was obtained on 15/7/13. The most publicly available up to date National Heritage List Entries can be obtained from www.historicengland.org.uk

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Park Road 19, "Clarence Hotel" currently The Park

2018-12-08T14:03:26Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:The_Park.jpg|200px|thumb|left|"The Park", 19 Park Road]]

[[File:TheParka.jpg|200px|thumb|left|"The Clarence Hotel", 19 Park Road in 1975]]

[[File:TheParkb.jpg|200px|thumb|left|"The Clarence Hotel", 19 Park Road in 1975]]

[[File:TheParkc.jpg|200px|thumb|left|"The Clarence Hotel", 19 Park Road in 1975]]

'''Road''': [[Park Road, Teddington]]

'''Property''': 19, "The Park" formerly the Clarence Hotel, Park Road

Listed grade II in 1983 as a building of architectural or historic interest; the listing description is:

'Mid C19, 2-storey large public house. Nine bays wide (2:5:2). Centre bays stand forward and have higher first floor. Stock brick with stucco dressings. Entablatures at first floor and parapet level. Centre bay door and window openings have elaborately enriched dressings.'

This substantial building dates from 1863 and was built on the site of another pub – the Greyhound Inn – which itself dated from 1730. It was also known as the Clarence Arms Inn and briefly the Guildford Arms, named in both cases after the occupants of the nearby Bushy House. The Duke of Clarence was the future King William IV.

In 1823, the post office was here and letters were dispatched daily at "quarter before eight and a quarter before three in the afternoon." The style of the building is distinctly neo-classical French with its imposing first floor and segmental pediments over the windows.

The 1871 census (page ref RG10/866/720/2), 8 years after the hotel was built,
gives two brothers - James and Robert Hale - as the hotel keepers at the
ages of 28 and 27; they have 5 employees: house keeper, barmaid, cook
etc.; they are still running the hotel in 1891 (ref. RG12/617/124/11) with
three servants noted, and by then both have families. James has 2
daughters and a son, whilst Robert a daughter; no wives are recorded in the
census however. In 1901 (ref. RG13/673/30/1) the hotel was run by a
William Wickes - described as 'hotel proprietor' - with his family, and a
much larger staff of 10, two of which were foreign-born - from Germany and
Austria..'

THE PARK HOTEL – TEDDINGTON from Alan Winter in the Twickenham Tribune Dec 8,2018;

"19 Park Road has been the site of various dispensaries of ale and alcohol for nearly 300 years.
Originally an ale house called the Greyhound back in 1729, it became known as the Guilford Arms in 1795.
In 1823, the post office was on this site and letters were dispatched daily at "quarter before eight and a quarter before three in the afternoon." The style of the building is distinctly neo-classical French with its imposing first floor and segmental pediments over the windows.
The pub was renamed after the occupant of the nearby Bushy House; the Duke of Clarence was to become the future King William IV.
The Clarence Arms Inn is shown as trading there in 1860 before being completely re-built in 1863 and later becoming the Clarence Hotel. It temporarily closed for major refurbishment in 2000 and is now known as the Park Hotel which trades as a pub, a restaurant and a hotel.
The Park is a grade II listed building.
The first of our Edwardian postcards shows the hotel as a working stables and of interest is the policeman on the other side of the road. About 60 years later in the 1970s there were still police officers keeping an eye on ‘The Clarence’ on a Friday and Saturday night as it hosted a very popular disco which attracted young people from miles around.
I find the lack of traffic interesting. Of course motor vehicles in any numbers were still twenty or so years away but the road looks as if it is ready for them!"

The Historic England weblink is at:

http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1357755

© Historic England 1952. The National Heritage List for England entry contained in this material was obtained on 15/7/13. The most publicly available up to date National Heritage List Entries can be obtained from www.historicengland.org.uk

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File:Church Rd 30b.jpg

2018-09-22T06:45:45Z

KeithAtkinson:

File:Church Rd 30b jpg.jpg

2018-09-22T06:25:35Z

KeithAtkinson: KeithAtkinson uploaded a new version of File:Church Rd 30b jpg.jpg

File:Church Rd 30b jpg.jpg

2018-09-22T06:24:24Z

KeithAtkinson: KeithAtkinson uploaded a new version of File:Church Rd 30b jpg.jpg

File:Church Rd 30a.jpg

2018-09-22T06:22:45Z

KeithAtkinson:

File:Church Rd 30b jpg.jpg

2018-09-22T06:21:37Z

KeithAtkinson:

File:Church Rd 30a jpg.jpg

2018-09-22T06:21:01Z

KeithAtkinson:

St Mark's Road, "St Mark's Church"

2018-08-09T09:59:58Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church2.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church4.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

'''Road''': [[St Mark's Road]]

'''Property''': St Mark's Church

The present church of St Mark, in St Mark's Road, South Teddington, was opened in 1939. In 1875 a National school, which also served as a mission building, had been opened in [[Schoolhouse Lane]], and in 1880 a mission church on the corner of [[Fairfax Road]] and Bushy Park Road was opened. It was pulled down when the new church was built. St. Mark's was separated from the mother parish in 1938. The church was designed by C.A. Farey. It is cruciform with a tower at the crossing and is built of grey brick with stone dressings and a tiled roof. Inside it has an open roof and low narrow aisles with round-headed arcades.

"St Mark's Church is one of Teddington's undiscovered gems. The exterior is muted blocky brickwork but inside the interior is a fine example of simple early 20th century neo Romanesque design with plain walls, simple arches and circular windows. The newly restored floor is constructed in oak and teak and the rich colour of the floor compliments the dark interior roof tiles, exposed beams and pale walls. The church was consecrated in 1939; [possibly the last in England before the outbreak of the second world war.

Many of the church furnishings are second hand. Some such as the memorial board in the Remembrance Chapel dedicated to St Martin of Tours came from the 1915 church which was on the same site as St Mark's Church and was used as the church hall until it burnt down in 2009. The pews, the stations of the cross and the statue of St John the Baptist came from the church of St John the Baptist Great Marlborough Street which was demolished in 1938. Perhaps this reuse of church materials was an early ecclesiastical example of the wartime saying 'make do and mend.'

Revd Karen Wellman August 2018

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St Mark's Road, "St Mark's Church"

2018-08-09T09:39:37Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church2.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church4.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

'''Road''': [[St Mark's Road]]

'''Property''': St Mark's Church

The present church of St Mark, in St Mark's Road, South Teddington, was opened in 1939. In 1875 a National school, which also served as a mission building, had been opened in [[Schoolhouse Lane]], and in 1880 a mission church on the corner of [[Fairfax Road]] and Bushy Park Road was opened. It was pulled down when the new church was built. St. Mark's was separated from the mother parish in 1938. The church was designed by C.A. Farey. It is cruciform with a tower at the crossing and is built of grey brick with stone dressings and a tiled roof. Inside it has an open roof and low narrow aisles with round-headed arcades.

"St Mark's Church is one of Teddington's undiscovered gems. The exterior is muted blocky brickwork but inside the interior is a fine example of simple early 20th century neo Romanesque design with plain walls, simple arches and circular windows. The newly restored floor is constructed in oak and teak and the rich colour of the floor compliments the dark interior roof tiles, exposed beams and pale walls. The church was consecrated in 1939; [possibly the last in England before the outbreak of the second world war.

Many of the church furnishings are second hand. Some such as the memorial board in the Remembrance Chapel dedicated to St Martin of Tours came from the 1915 church which was on the same site as St Mark's Church and was used as the church hall until it burnt down in 2009. The pews, the stations of the cross and the statue of St John the Baptist came from the church of St John the Baptist Great Marlborough Street which was demolished in 1938. Perhaps this reuse of church materials was an early ecclesiastical example of the wartime saying 'make do and mend.'

Revd Karen Wellman
<br>St Mark's Church
<br>The Vicarage
<br>St Mark's Road
<br>Teddington
<br>TW11 9DE

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St Mark's Road, "St Mark's Church"

2018-08-08T07:57:25Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church2.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church4.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

'''Road''': [[St Mark's Road]]

'''Property''': St Mark's Church

The present church of St Mark, in St Mark's Road, South Teddington, was opened in 1939. In 1875 a National school, which also served as a mission building, had been opened in [[Schoolhouse Lane]], and in 1880 a mission church on the corner of [[Fairfax Road]] and Bushy Park Road was opened. It was pulled down when the new church was built. St. Mark's was separated from the mother parish in 1938. The church was designed by C.A. Farey. It is cruciform with a tower at the crossing and is built of grey brick with stone dressings and a tiled roof. Inside it has an open roof and low narrow aisles with round-headed arcades.

"St Mark's is one of Teddington's hidden gems. We have just done some restoration work on the floor and wanted to show off what a fabulous space it is. We have retained the pews but made them moveable. In this photo you can see what the architect Cyril Farey intended in 1938 with a light and peaceful almost Romanesque building."

Revd Karen Wellman
St Mark's Church
The Vicarage
St Mark's Road
Teddington
TW11 9DE

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File:St Marks Rd St Marks Church4.jpg

2018-08-08T07:56:25Z

KeithAtkinson:

St Mark's Road, "St Mark's Church"

2018-08-08T07:53:29Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church2.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church3.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church4.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

'''Road''': [[St Mark's Road]]

'''Property''': St Mark's Church

The present church of St Mark, in St Mark's Road, South Teddington, was opened in 1939. In 1875 a National school, which also served as a mission building, had been opened in [[Schoolhouse Lane]], and in 1880 a mission church on the corner of [[Fairfax Road]] and Bushy Park Road was opened. It was pulled down when the new church was built. St. Mark's was separated from the mother parish in 1938. The church was designed by C.A. Farey. It is cruciform with a tower at the crossing and is built of grey brick with stone dressings and a tiled roof. Inside it has an open roof and low narrow aisles with round-headed arcades.

"St Mark's is one of Teddington's hidden gems. We have just done some restoration work on the floor and wanted to show off what a fabulous space it is. We have retained the pews but made them moveable. In this photo you can see what the architect Cyril Farey intended in 1938 with a light and peaceful almost Romanesque building."

Revd Karen Wellman
St Mark's Church
The Vicarage
St Mark's Road
Teddington
TW11 9DE

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File:St Marks Rd St Marks Church3.jpg

2018-08-07T15:38:35Z

KeithAtkinson:

St Mark's Road, "St Mark's Church"

2018-08-07T15:32:29Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church2.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church3.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

'''Road''': [[St Mark's Road]]

'''Property''': St Mark's Church

The present church of St Mark, in St Mark's Road, South Teddington, was opened in 1939. In 1875 a National school, which also served as a mission building, had been opened in [[Schoolhouse Lane]], and in 1880 a mission church on the corner of [[Fairfax Road]] and Bushy Park Road was opened. It was pulled down when the new church was built. St. Mark's was separated from the mother parish in 1938. The church was designed by C.A. Farey. It is cruciform with a tower at the crossing and is built of grey brick with stone dressings and a tiled roof. Inside it has an open roof and low narrow aisles with round-headed arcades.

"St Mark's is one of Teddington's hidden gems. We have just done some restoration work on the floor and wanted to show off what a fabulous space it is. We have retained the pews but made them moveable. In this photo you can see what the architect Cyril Farey intended in 1938 with a light and peaceful almost Romanesque building."

Revd Karen Wellman
St Mark's Church
The Vicarage
St Mark's Road
Teddington
TW11 9DE

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St Mark's Road, "St Mark's Church"

2018-08-07T14:11:16Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church2.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church4.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

'''Road''': [[St Mark's Road]]

'''Property''': St Mark's Church

The present church of St Mark, in St Mark's Road, South Teddington, was opened in 1939. In 1875 a National school, which also served as a mission building, had been opened in [[Schoolhouse Lane]], and in 1880 a mission church on the corner of [[Fairfax Road]] and Bushy Park Road was opened. It was pulled down when the new church was built. St. Mark's was separated from the mother parish in 1938. The church was designed by C.A. Farey. It is cruciform with a tower at the crossing and is built of grey brick with stone dressings and a tiled roof. Inside it has an open roof and low narrow aisles with round-headed arcades.

"St Mark's is one of Teddington's hidden gems. We have just done some restoration work on the floor and wanted to show off what a fabulous space it is. We have retained the pews but made them moveable. In this photo you can see what the architect Cyril Farey intended in 1938 with a light and peaceful almost Romanesque building."

Revd Karen Wellman
St Mark's Church
The Vicarage
St Mark's Road
Teddington
TW11 9DE

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St Mark's Road, "St Mark's Church"

2018-08-07T10:54:29Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church2.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church3.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

'''Road''': [[St Mark's Road]]

'''Property''': St Mark's Church

The present church of St Mark, in St Mark's Road, South Teddington, was opened in 1939. In 1875 a National school, which also served as a mission building, had been opened in [[Schoolhouse Lane]], and in 1880 a mission church on the corner of [[Fairfax Road]] and Bushy Park Road was opened. It was pulled down when the new church was built. St. Mark's was separated from the mother parish in 1938. The church was designed by C.A. Farey. It is cruciform with a tower at the crossing and is built of grey brick with stone dressings and a tiled roof. Inside it has an open roof and low narrow aisles with round-headed arcades.

"St Mark's is one of Teddington's hidden gems. We have just done some restoration work on the floor and wanted to show off what a fabulous space it is. We have retained the pews but made them moveable. In this photo you can see what the architect Cyril Farey intended in 1938 with a light and peaceful almost Romanesque building."

Revd Karen Wellman
St Mark's Church
The Vicarage
St Mark's Road
Teddington
TW11 9DE

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St Mark's Road, "St Mark's Church"

2018-08-06T11:52:41Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

[[File:St_Marks_Rd_St_Marks_Church2.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Mark's Church, St Mark's Rd]]

'''Road''': [[St Mark's Road]]

'''Property''': St Mark's Church

The present church of St Mark, in St Mark's Road, South Teddington, was opened in 1939. In 1875 a National school, which also served as a mission building, had been opened in [[Schoolhouse Lane]], and in 1880 a mission church on the corner of [[Fairfax Road]] and Bushy Park Road was opened. It was pulled down when the new church was built. St. Mark's was separated from the mother parish in 1938. The church was designed by C.A. Farey. It is cruciform with a tower at the crossing and is built of grey brick with stone dressings and a tiled roof. Inside it has an open roof and low narrow aisles with round-headed arcades.

"St Mark's is one of Teddington's hidden gems. We have just done some restoration work on the floor and wanted to show off what a fabulous space it is. We have retained the pews but made them moveable. In this photo you can see what the architect Cyril Farey intended in 1938 with a light and peaceful almost Romanesque building."

Revd Karen Wellman
St Mark's Church
The Vicarage
St Mark's Road
Teddington
TW11 9DE

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Bushy Park, "Bartons Cottage"

2018-05-13T19:27:14Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:Bushy_Park_Bartons_Cottage.jpg|200px|thumb|left|"Bartons Cottage", Bushy Park]]

'''Road''': [[Bushy Park]]

'''Property''': "Bartons Cottage"

Barton's Cottage was originally part of a farm complex which flourished for many years. It had its own duck pond which drained, according to the Roque map of the area, into the Longford below the Waterhouse pond. About 100 years ago the farm buildings were demolished and the farm house gentrified into a Grace and Favour residence. The pond remains outside the front gate but the water outlet drains northwards.
An ex-equerry & Press Secretary to Elizabeth the Queen Mother (Major John Griffin) lived in this property from 1967 when he worked at Clarence House up until 2009, according to his son Philip who grew up there.It is a "Grace & Favour" house. It is mentioned in the 1997 book Bushy Park: Royals, Rangers and Rogues' written by Kathy White & Peter Foster but little is known of its history.It now appears to be uninhabited (2016).

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File:18 Broom Water West.jpg

2017-12-13T09:21:57Z

KeithAtkinson:

Broom Water West 18, "Gazebo"

2017-12-13T09:21:04Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:18_Broom_Water_West.jpg|200px|thumb|left|18 Broom Water West, "Gazebo"]]

'''Road''': [[Broom Water West]]

'''Property''': 18, "Gazebo"

See photo at left.

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Udney Park Road 36

2017-11-06T16:51:19Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:Udney_Park_Rd_36.jpg|200px|thumb|left|36 Udney Park Road]]

[[File:UPRd36a.jpg|200px|thumb|left|36 Udney Park Road]]

[[File:UPRd36b.jpg|200px|thumb|left|36 Udney Park Road]]

'''Road''': [[Udney Park Road]]

'''Property''': 36

"Detached 2-storey house built after 1932. This house was built of old bricks and timber to give an "olde worlde" effect. Small latticed windows, tiled roof & integral garage." TeddSoc 1975.

See following notes on 36 provided by the current (2017)owners and on both 36 & 38 put together by David Schenck of Horley from his research on the houses' distinguished Horley, Surrey Architect
'''Blunden Shadbolt (1879–1949) Lic.R.I.B.A.'''

'''Architect with the Eye of an Artist'''

Born in an affluent area of Wandsworth in 1879, Blunden Shadbolt had a singularly unfortunate childhood. When he was only two years of age he lost his father, a timber merchant who specialized in mahogany. Devastated and unsettled, his family moved to three different towns over the next few years. As a young boy he was of mild and rather timid disposition, so that when he attended school, he was subjected to bullying. Thankful when his school days ended, he found employment with a firm of architects in Chelmsford.
In 1898, Blunden, moved with his mother and two elder sisters from Sudbury, Suffolk to Horley in Surrey where he was articled to architect and surveyor, Arthur Kelway Bamber, who had recently moved to Horley from Chelmsford. However, for reasons unknown, Bamber left Horley in the following year and Blunden was forced to travel to London to complete his training with the far more experienced architect, George A. Hall, a Fellow of the British Institute of Architects whose office was in Victoria Street, London. By the end of 1899, he had returned to Horley and by 1901, had completed work on several houses, the designs of which were typical of the period.
But what of the amazing multi-gabled, timber-framed buildings with their complex roof structures for which he later achieved renown? Blunden was a deeply religious man of outstanding integrity and was strongly influenced by the lovely rural surroundings that he found while working in Newdigate, Rusper and other villages around Horley. He loved God and he loved Nature and having observed that nothing in nature was completely straight, he determined that his timber-framed houses should be likewise and so be in complete harmony with the trees around them!
Only ancient bricks, stone, tiles and oak beams were used in the construction of these homes and every effort was made to avoid a ‘mechanical’ appearance. His builders were not permitted to use plumb lines, so that the vertical accuracy of the construction depended entirely on the judgement of the eyes. Similarly, rows of bricks were deliberately set slightly out of line and the ridges of roofs distorted to give the appearance of having sagged with age. Any moss growing on the old tiles was carefully preserved, so that on the day of completion, his timber-framed houses appeared in a style aptly described by one historian as ‘wibbly-wobbly’. These homes not only appeared ancient, but were genuinely ancient on the very day of their completion. Bricklayers were often reluctant to work on the buildings that Shadbolt designed in this style, for fear that, because of the uneven nature of the bricklaying, their future employment prospects might be jeopardised. It was said by a builder of the time that some bricklayers who worked on these buildings, even took to covering their faces, so that they would not be recognised.
Such was Blunden Shadbolt’s talent and attention to detail that, in years long past, several of
his houses were believed to be centuries old and inadvertently classified as ‘Listed Buildings’.
Today, a growing number of his houses have been ‘Listed’ and ‘Graded’ by Local Councils
with full knowledge of the year of construction, but on their own merits and because they were
designed by Blunden Shadbolt. It is important to note that not all the timbered houses designed
by Blunden Shadbolt were built in this ‘wibbly-wobbly’ style, as this would depend on the
wishes and financial resources of each customer and Blunden’s own consideration of the area
surrounding the proposed site.
Typical features found on Shadbolt’s ‘wibbly-wobbly’ timber-framed properties are:– complex
multi-gabled roofs; roof ridges that appear to have sagged with age; catslide roofs – having one
side longer that the other; upper rooms that overhang the room below; minstrel’s galleries;
exterior brickwork deliberately laid out of true horizontal and vertical alignment; walls of rooms
not truly vertical or square to one another; massive chimneys, often on outer walls and
inglenook fireplaces, some having a small window in the inglenook. A few of his houses feature
an oriel window.
Blunden was greatly encouraged by the sales and enquiries that had resulted from exhibiting
his nature-blending show homes in the Ideal Home Exhibitions of 1924 and 1926 and now 48
years of age, he married Joyce Woodward Court in the Solihull, District of Warwickshire, on
2nd August 1927. They then returned to live above Blunden’s office at 32, Victoria Road,
Horley, where they remained until early in 1930, by which time he had decided to build a family
home for his wife and first daughter on the one and a half acres of orchard covered land that he
had acquired in 1929. The beautiful timbered-framed home and office that he built on this land
was aptly named Orchards and it was completed in 1930.
During the ensuing period, Blunden Shadbolt’s reputation spread further afield and, by 1939,
his timber-framed properties were to be found in Barns Green (near Horsham); Betchworth;
Blindley Heath; Bognor Regis; Charlwood; Copthorne; County Oak (near Crawley); Danbury,
Essex; Esher; Haslemere; Highgate; Hindhead; Hope (in Derbyshire); Horley; Kingston; Lowfield
Heath (near Crawley); Margate; Maidenhead; Mill Hill, (London); Newchapel (near Lingfield);
Newdigate; Newhaven; North Lancing; Outwood; Oxshott, Leatherhead; Peasmarsh (near
Battle); Petersham; Pinner; Pyrford Green; Reigate; Rusper; Salfords; Watford and Worth (near
Crawley, Sussex).
Blunden Shadbolt was qualified both as an Architect and a Structural Engineer, so that during
WWII, his time was almost entirely taken up advising on the structural repairs of buildings
damaged by bombing, and when the war ended in 1945, he finally retired.
Tragically, Blunden died during the summer of 1949, when he was knocked off his bicycle by
a car. He was then 70 years of age. An architect who turned his dreams into delightful reality,
Blunden Shadbolt was the most generous of men, to whom “having money” was simply not the
most important thing in his life. His love of God and of Nature is reflected in the beauty of his
buildings and we are indeed fortunate that he left such a wonderful legacy in this south-eastern
corner of England.
© David H. J. Schenck Revised 20th August 2017 david.schenck790@btinternet.com
You are welcome to share this mini-biography with others providing it remains complete and unaltered.

'''Owners' notes (2017)'''

Over our 20 years ownership we we have added and altered the house to suit our lifestyle. Many older buildings are no longer fit for purpose and there are many ways of improving them
The house is much admired by passers by and we have been very happy living here. Purists might not approve of some of our changes but we believe that the essential charm is still there. Let us take you through the main changes.
The house in 1997 was very small and the living room dominated by a large inglenook. A back addition had been converted to a bathroom. The kitchen was very basic and the equipment past its best.
To maximise the space we added a conservatory to the back, restored the bathroom to living space and removed one wall. The re equipped kitchen was opened up into an open plan ground floor. Sandstone cladding was installed around the rather ugly corbelled chimney and an open gas fire inserted .Central heating and underfloor heating was installed. The whole of the ground floor was re-surfaced with a light coloured hardwood which makes the place much brighter.
We created a scullery using part of the kitchen and divided it to add a wet room / toilet accessed from the hallway .
On the first floor, some of the windows were so highly positioned that one could not see out without standing on tip toe so we had some of the rear windows lowered. The back addition provided a roof terrace accessed by a door from one of the two bedrooms, providing a pretty, sunny spot particularly in the afternoon particularly. The fireplace in the second bedroom has been hidden to create much needed cupboards. The pitched ceiling on this floor was originally just rafters, liner and tiles, contributing to massive heat loss so it was lined with simple white painted MDF, becoming much less visually 'busy'.
Between the two bedrooms was a bathroom plus toilet. We installed a downstairs comby boiler , releasing enough space to put in a separate WC.
The garage at the front was too small for any modern car so it has become a study. The original doors were replaced by double glazing. We also replaced some of the leaded light windows with double glazing. But we had to work within our budgets and - as artists we took decisions according to our taste but mainly practical reasons. Leaded windows reduce the light coming in through the small openings, they interrupt the precious view outwards and they were in bad condition, letting in the cold and expensive to replace.
Recently we built a second conservatory on the North side of the house. This now serves as a gallery to which the public are permitted.To the rear are ponds and a deck area.
So as you can see we have done a great deal of work to make our charming 'Wibbly Wobbly" cottage liveable while preserving enough of the original character.

'''DAVID SCHENCK NOTES ON TIMBER FRAMING ETC'''

'''Tudor Style Houses.''' It soon became apparent that Blunden Shadbolt had a strong leaning towards the use of exposed timberwork on the exterior walls of his houses in what was known generally as “Tudor Style”. However, there was more than one constructional method of achieving this result, so it important to explain the ways in which architects used timber in their designs.

'''Timber-Framed or ‘Half-Timbered’ Houses'''. The centuries-old process of timber-framing was a method of construction, the enduring qualities of which have been long proven, as is evidenced by the many ancient timber-framed homes that are still to be seen in so many towns and villages of England – and even more so in Germany, where the process is called ‘Fachwerk’. Once the oaken framework had been completed and erected, the open spaces (panels) between the beams were filled with “wattle and daub” – this involved vertical branches of very flexible wattle (acacia) being interwoven horizontally with thinner branches. The thicker, vertical branches were fitted into holes drilled in the horizontal beams at the head and foot of each panel, while the horizontal branches were fitted into slots in the sides of the panel. The resulting interwoven fillings were then daubed with ‘clay mud’ mixed with straw and/or hair to complete the panel filling, which was later whitened to contrast with the dark beams.

However, by the early 1900s, the wattle and daub process was giving away to panels being infilled with bricks and it was based on the idea that the materials used in the construction of the exterior walls were half of timber and half of brick, that led to these houses being referred as being “half-timbered”.

In this construction process, several courses of brick or stone are laid on the foundations to form a base for the timber frames. Then, sawn or hewn beams, mostly of oak, are cut with mortice and tenon joints, each of which is individually marked with a ‘Carpenter’s Mark’, as a guide to the assembly of the frame. The bottom beam, of the frame, called the ‘sill beam’, is placed on a layer of mortar on top of the brick or stone wall. All the frames are then assembled in an upright position and the mortice and tenon joints firmly secured with wooden pegs known as studs. The photo-graph on the right, taken early in 1924, shows a part-completed frame with several panels in the process of being filled with bricks and a small, leaded-light window, already fitted in its frame, during the construction of Brockholt, a lovely timber-framed home in the village of Salfords, near Redhill, Surrey. This photograph is taken from an article by Captain P.A. Barron, published in the former Town & Country Homes magazine in June 1925, less than a year after the house was completed. The article was found in Blunden Shadbolt’s briefcase. Note the massive, gnarled bresummer (crossbeam) that defines the front of the inglenook fireplace. Once the brickwork supporting the ends of this bresummer has been built, then it will have to bear the weight of brickwork up to, at least, ceiling height and often higher.

When creating his timber-framed homes, Shadbolt preferred to use variations of a colourful mix of stock bricks, including red, purple, yellow and even black, as if discoloured by soot from a chimney. This gentle colour-mix blended well with the countryside as may be seen in the entry for Brockholt on page….. However, many owners or successive owners of these houses have since elected to paint the exteriors of their homes in a wide variety of colours, but mainly white, cream or pink masonry paint.

'''Imitation or “Faux”-Timber-Framed Houses'''
Many people loved the romantic look of timber-framed homes, but in the 1920s and 30s, they were somewhat more expensive than the average conventionally built home and not everybody could afford one. However, it is evident that there was a clear demand for houses that looked just like a timber-framed building, but at a lower price – and this led to the creation of “Imitation Timber-framed” houses or, as they came to be known, “Faux-timbered” houses, or more recently “Neo-Tudor”, but this term also applies to timber-framed houses designed after the early 1920s. Although Blunden Shadbolt is best known for his timber-framed homes, he also designed even more houses that were faux-timbered as opposed to being timber framed.

In the faux-timber process, sawn planks of about 4 inches wide and 1¼ inches thick were cut to the required length and sometimes shaped to a curve and nailed to the brickwork in the form of panels. The spaces within the panels were then rendered with a mortar infill and the depth aligned with the face of the timbers. Unlike timber-framed houses, the timberwork has no structural function at all.

Even from a short distance, faux-timbered homes looked just like timber-framed buildings, and the introduction of even cheaper, semi-detached versions of faux-timbered homes, designed for middleclass owners, led to their becoming immensely popular, so that by the 1930s, they could be found in the leafy lanes of many towns and villages, especially in the south-east of England. Similarly, detached faux-timbered homes designed for the more affluent, also gained considerable popularity. Early in the same period, Blunden Shadbolt designed eleven unattached, faux-timbered homes, each on half-acre plots, in Dayseys, Lane Outwood, Surrey. All the houses had four bedrooms, three reception rooms, a bathroom, kitchen, coal cellar and attached garage and the selling price was £1250.

From time to time, articles have appeared that containing disparaging comments about faux-timbered houses. This simply cannot be justified, for one only has to see the entry for The Coppice in Reigate, Surrey to understand just how fine these homes can be.

'''Decorative Timbers'''. Such timbers are mostly seen in the gables of houses and vary widely in design. In effect, these are planks of wood about one and a quarter inches thick, that have been shaped as required and nailed to the gable wall. Then, as in faux-timbered houses, the spaces between them are rendered with a mortar infill and aligned with the face of the timbers. They are purely decorative and have no structural function at all.

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by the [[Planning Group|Planning]] and [[History Group|History]] Groups of [http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk/ The Teddington Society].
Click on any photo for a higher resolution version. Copyright for the material on this page rests with the contributor.

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[[Category:Buildings]]

File:UPRd36b.jpg

2017-11-06T16:48:17Z

KeithAtkinson:

File:UPRd36a.jpg

2017-11-06T16:44:30Z

KeithAtkinson:

Udney Park Road 36

2017-11-06T16:41:36Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:Udney_Park_Rd_36.jpg|200px|thumb|left|36 Udney Park Road]]

[[File:UPRd36a.jpg|200px|thumb|left|36 Udney Park Road]]

[[File:UPRd36b.jpg|200px|thumb|left|36 Udney Park Road]]

'''Road''': [[Udney Park Road]]

'''Property''': 36

"Detached 2-storey house built after 1932. This house was built of old bricks and timber to give an "olde worlde" effect. Small latticed windows, tiled roof & integral garage." TeddSoc 1975.

See following notes on 36 & 38 put together by David Schenck of Horley from his research on the houses' distinguished Horley, Surrey Architect '''Blunden Shadbolt (1879–1949) Lic.R.I.B.A.'''

'''Architect with the Eye of an Artist'''

Born in an affluent area of Wandsworth in 1879, Blunden Shadbolt had a singularly unfortunate childhood. When he was only two years of age he lost his father, a timber merchant who specialized in mahogany. Devastated and unsettled, his family moved to three different towns over the next few years. As a young boy he was of mild and rather timid disposition, so that when he attended school, he was subjected to bullying. Thankful when his school days ended, he found employment with a firm of architects in Chelmsford.
In 1898, Blunden, moved with his mother and two elder sisters from Sudbury, Suffolk to Horley in Surrey where he was articled to architect and surveyor, Arthur Kelway Bamber, who had recently moved to Horley from Chelmsford. However, for reasons unknown, Bamber left Horley in the following year and Blunden was forced to travel to London to complete his training with the far more experienced architect, George A. Hall, a Fellow of the British Institute of Architects whose office was in Victoria Street, London. By the end of 1899, he had returned to Horley and by 1901, had completed work on several houses, the designs of which were typical of the period.
But what of the amazing multi-gabled, timber-framed buildings with their complex roof structures for which he later achieved renown? Blunden was a deeply religious man of outstanding integrity and was strongly influenced by the lovely rural surroundings that he found while working in Newdigate, Rusper and other villages around Horley. He loved God and he loved Nature and having observed that nothing in nature was completely straight, he determined that his timber-framed houses should be likewise and so be in complete harmony with the trees around them!
Only ancient bricks, stone, tiles and oak beams were used in the construction of these homes and every effort was made to avoid a ‘mechanical’ appearance. His builders were not permitted to use plumb lines, so that the vertical accuracy of the construction depended entirely on the judgement of the eyes. Similarly, rows of bricks were deliberately set slightly out of line and the ridges of roofs distorted to give the appearance of having sagged with age. Any moss growing on the old tiles was carefully preserved, so that on the day of completion, his timber-framed houses appeared in a style aptly described by one historian as ‘wibbly-wobbly’. These homes not only appeared ancient, but were genuinely ancient on the very day of their completion. Bricklayers were often reluctant to work on the buildings that Shadbolt designed in this style, for fear that, because of the uneven nature of the bricklaying, their future employment prospects might be jeopardised. It was said by a builder of the time that some bricklayers who worked on these buildings, even took to covering their faces, so that they would not be recognised.
Such was Blunden Shadbolt’s talent and attention to detail that, in years long past, several of
his houses were believed to be centuries old and inadvertently classified as ‘Listed Buildings’.
Today, a growing number of his houses have been ‘Listed’ and ‘Graded’ by Local Councils
with full knowledge of the year of construction, but on their own merits and because they were
designed by Blunden Shadbolt. It is important to note that not all the timbered houses designed
by Blunden Shadbolt were built in this ‘wibbly-wobbly’ style, as this would depend on the
wishes and financial resources of each customer and Blunden’s own consideration of the area
surrounding the proposed site.
Typical features found on Shadbolt’s ‘wibbly-wobbly’ timber-framed properties are:– complex
multi-gabled roofs; roof ridges that appear to have sagged with age; catslide roofs – having one
side longer that the other; upper rooms that overhang the room below; minstrel’s galleries;
exterior brickwork deliberately laid out of true horizontal and vertical alignment; walls of rooms
not truly vertical or square to one another; massive chimneys, often on outer walls and
inglenook fireplaces, some having a small window in the inglenook. A few of his houses feature
an oriel window.
Blunden was greatly encouraged by the sales and enquiries that had resulted from exhibiting
his nature-blending show homes in the Ideal Home Exhibitions of 1924 and 1926 and now 48
years of age, he married Joyce Woodward Court in the Solihull, District of Warwickshire, on
2nd August 1927. They then returned to live above Blunden’s office at 32, Victoria Road,
Horley, where they remained until early in 1930, by which time he had decided to build a family
home for his wife and first daughter on the one and a half acres of orchard covered land that he
had acquired in 1929. The beautiful timbered-framed home and office that he built on this land
was aptly named Orchards and it was completed in 1930.
During the ensuing period, Blunden Shadbolt’s reputation spread further afield and, by 1939,
his timber-framed properties were to be found in Barns Green (near Horsham); Betchworth;
Blindley Heath; Bognor Regis; Charlwood; Copthorne; County Oak (near Crawley); Danbury,
Essex; Esher; Haslemere; Highgate; Hindhead; Hope (in Derbyshire); Horley; Kingston; Lowfield
Heath (near Crawley); Margate; Maidenhead; Mill Hill, (London); Newchapel (near Lingfield);
Newdigate; Newhaven; North Lancing; Outwood; Oxshott, Leatherhead; Peasmarsh (near
Battle); Petersham; Pinner; Pyrford Green; Reigate; Rusper; Salfords; Watford and Worth (near
Crawley, Sussex).
Blunden Shadbolt was qualified both as an Architect and a Structural Engineer, so that during
WWII, his time was almost entirely taken up advising on the structural repairs of buildings
damaged by bombing, and when the war ended in 1945, he finally retired.
Tragically, Blunden died during the summer of 1949, when he was knocked off his bicycle by
a car. He was then 70 years of age. An architect who turned his dreams into delightful reality,
Blunden Shadbolt was the most generous of men, to whom “having money” was simply not the
most important thing in his life. His love of God and of Nature is reflected in the beauty of his
buildings and we are indeed fortunate that he left such a wonderful legacy in this south-eastern
corner of England.
© David H. J. Schenck Revised 20th August 2017 david.schenck790@btinternet.com
You are welcome to share this mini-biography with others providing it remains complete and unaltered.

'''Owners' notes (2017)'''

Over our 20 years ownership we we have added and altered the house to suit our lifestyle. Many older buildings are no longer fit for purpose and there are many ways of improving them
The house is much admired by passers by and we have been very happy living here. Purists might not approve of some of our changes but we believe that the essential charm is still there. Let us take you through the main changes.
The house in 1997 was very small and the living room dominated by a large inglenook. A back addition had been converted to a bathroom. The kitchen was very basic and the equipment past its best.
To maximise the space we added a conservatory to the back, restored the bathroom to living space and removed one wall. The re equipped kitchen was opened up into an open plan ground floor. Sandstone cladding was installed around the rather ugly corbelled chimney and an open gas fire inserted .Central heating and underfloor heating was installed. The whole of the ground floor was re-surfaced with a light coloured hardwood which makes the place much brighter.
We created a scullery using part of the kitchen and divided it to add a wet room / toilet accessed from the hallway .
On the first floor, some of the windows were so highly positioned that one could not see out without standing on tip toe so we had some of the rear windows lowered. The back addition provided a roof terrace accessed by a door from one of the two bedrooms, providing a pretty, sunny spot particularly in the afternoon particularly. The fireplace in the second bedroom has been hidden to create much needed cupboards. The pitched ceiling on this floor was originally just rafters, liner and tiles, contributing to massive heat loss so it was lined with simple white painted MDF, becoming much less visually 'busy'.
Between the two bedrooms was a bathroom plus toilet. We installed a downstairs comby boiler , releasing enough space to put in a separate WC.
The garage at the front was too small for any modern car so it has become a study. The original doors were replaced by double glazing. We also replaced some of the leaded light windows with double glazing. But we had to work within our budgets and - as artists we took decisions according to our taste but mainly practical reasons. Leaded windows reduce the light coming in through the small openings, they interrupt the precious view outwards and they were in bad condition, letting in the cold and expensive to replace.
Recently we built a second conservatory on the North side of the house. This now serves as a gallery to which the public are permitted.To the rear are ponds and a deck area.
So as you can see we have done a great deal of work to make our charming 'Wibbly Wobbly" cottage liveable while preserving enough of the original character.

'''NOTES ON TIMBER FRAMING ETC'''

'''Tudor Style Houses.''' It soon became apparent that Blunden Shadbolt had a strong leaning towards the use of exposed timberwork on the exterior walls of his houses in what was known generally as “Tudor Style”. However, there was more than one constructional method of achieving this result, so it important to explain the ways in which architects used timber in their designs.

'''Timber-Framed or ‘Half-Timbered’ Houses'''. The centuries-old process of timber-framing was a method of construction, the enduring qualities of which have been long proven, as is evidenced by the many ancient timber-framed homes that are still to be seen in so many towns and villages of England – and even more so in Germany, where the process is called ‘Fachwerk’. Once the oaken framework had been completed and erected, the open spaces (panels) between the beams were filled with “wattle and daub” – this involved vertical branches of very flexible wattle (acacia) being interwoven horizontally with thinner branches. The thicker, vertical branches were fitted into holes drilled in the horizontal beams at the head and foot of each panel, while the horizontal branches were fitted into slots in the sides of the panel. The resulting interwoven fillings were then daubed with ‘clay mud’ mixed with straw and/or hair to complete the panel filling, which was later whitened to contrast with the dark beams.

However, by the early 1900s, the wattle and daub process was giving away to panels being infilled with bricks and it was based on the idea that the materials used in the construction of the exterior walls were half of timber and half of brick, that led to these houses being referred as being “half-timbered”.

In this construction process, several courses of brick or stone are laid on the foundations to form a base for the timber frames. Then, sawn or hewn beams, mostly of oak, are cut with mortice and tenon joints, each of which is individually marked with a ‘Carpenter’s Mark’, as a guide to the assembly of the frame. The bottom beam, of the frame, called the ‘sill beam’, is placed on a layer of mortar on top of the brick or stone wall. All the frames are then assembled in an upright position and the mortice and tenon joints firmly secured with wooden pegs known as studs. The photo-graph on the right, taken early in 1924, shows a part-completed frame with several panels in the process of being filled with bricks and a small, leaded-light window, already fitted in its frame, during the construction of Brockholt, a lovely timber-framed home in the village of Salfords, near Redhill, Surrey. This photograph is taken from an article by Captain P.A. Barron, published in the former Town & Country Homes magazine in June 1925, less than a year after the house was completed. The article was found in Blunden Shadbolt’s briefcase. Note the massive, gnarled bresummer (crossbeam) that defines the front of the inglenook fireplace. Once the brickwork supporting the ends of this bresummer has been built, then it will have to bear the weight of brickwork up to, at least, ceiling height and often higher.

When creating his timber-framed homes, Shadbolt preferred to use variations of a colourful mix of stock bricks, including red, purple, yellow and even black, as if discoloured by soot from a chimney. This gentle colour-mix blended well with the countryside as may be seen in the entry for Brockholt on page….. However, many owners or successive owners of these houses have since elected to paint the exteriors of their homes in a wide variety of colours, but mainly white, cream or pink masonry paint.

'''Imitation or “Faux”-Timber-Framed Houses'''
Many people loved the romantic look of timber-framed homes, but in the 1920s and 30s, they were somewhat more expensive than the average conventionally built home and not everybody could afford one. However, it is evident that there was a clear demand for houses that looked just like a timber-framed building, but at a lower price – and this led to the creation of “Imitation Timber-framed” houses or, as they came to be known, “Faux-timbered” houses, or more recently “Neo-Tudor”, but this term also applies to timber-framed houses designed after the early 1920s. Although Blunden Shadbolt is best known for his timber-framed homes, he also designed even more houses that were faux-timbered as opposed to being timber framed.

In the faux-timber process, sawn planks of about 4 inches wide and 1¼ inches thick were cut to the required length and sometimes shaped to a curve and nailed to the brickwork in the form of panels. The spaces within the panels were then rendered with a mortar infill and the depth aligned with the face of the timbers. Unlike timber-framed houses, the timberwork has no structural function at all.

Even from a short distance, faux-timbered homes looked just like timber-framed buildings, and the introduction of even cheaper, semi-detached versions of faux-timbered homes, designed for middleclass owners, led to their becoming immensely popular, so that by the 1930s, they could be found in the leafy lanes of many towns and villages, especially in the south-east of England. Similarly, detached faux-timbered homes designed for the more affluent, also gained considerable popularity. Early in the same period, Blunden Shadbolt designed eleven unattached, faux-timbered homes, each on half-acre plots, in Dayseys, Lane Outwood, Surrey. All the houses had four bedrooms, three reception rooms, a bathroom, kitchen, coal cellar and attached garage and the selling price was £1250.

From time to time, articles have appeared that containing disparaging comments about faux-timbered houses. This simply cannot be justified, for one only has to see the entry for The Coppice in Reigate, Surrey to understand just how fine these homes can be.

'''Decorative Timbers'''. Such timbers are mostly seen in the gables of houses and vary widely in design. In effect, these are planks of wood about one and a quarter inches thick, that have been shaped as required and nailed to the gable wall. Then, as in faux-timbered houses, the spaces between them are rendered with a mortar infill and aligned with the face of the timbers. They are purely decorative and have no structural function at all.

----
This page is part of the [[Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings]] in Teddington assembled
by the [[Planning Group|Planning]] and [[History Group|History]] Groups of [http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk/ The Teddington Society].
Click on any photo for a higher resolution version. Copyright for the material on this page rests with the contributor.

[[Category:BTMs]]
[[Category:Buildings]]

Udney Park Road 36

2017-11-06T16:40:22Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:Udney_Park_Rd_36.jpg|200px|thumb|left|36 Udney Park Road]]

[[File:UPRd_36.jpg|200px|thumb|left|36 Udney Park Road]]

'''Road''': [[Udney Park Road]]

'''Property''': 36

"Detached 2-storey house built after 1932. This house was built of old bricks and timber to give an "olde worlde" effect. Small latticed windows, tiled roof & integral garage." TeddSoc 1975.

See following notes on 36 & 38 put together by David Schenck of Horley from his research on the houses' distinguished Horley, Surrey Architect '''Blunden Shadbolt (1879–1949) Lic.R.I.B.A.'''

'''Architect with the Eye of an Artist'''

Born in an affluent area of Wandsworth in 1879, Blunden Shadbolt had a singularly unfortunate childhood. When he was only two years of age he lost his father, a timber merchant who specialized in mahogany. Devastated and unsettled, his family moved to three different towns over the next few years. As a young boy he was of mild and rather timid disposition, so that when he attended school, he was subjected to bullying. Thankful when his school days ended, he found employment with a firm of architects in Chelmsford.
In 1898, Blunden, moved with his mother and two elder sisters from Sudbury, Suffolk to Horley in Surrey where he was articled to architect and surveyor, Arthur Kelway Bamber, who had recently moved to Horley from Chelmsford. However, for reasons unknown, Bamber left Horley in the following year and Blunden was forced to travel to London to complete his training with the far more experienced architect, George A. Hall, a Fellow of the British Institute of Architects whose office was in Victoria Street, London. By the end of 1899, he had returned to Horley and by 1901, had completed work on several houses, the designs of which were typical of the period.
But what of the amazing multi-gabled, timber-framed buildings with their complex roof structures for which he later achieved renown? Blunden was a deeply religious man of outstanding integrity and was strongly influenced by the lovely rural surroundings that he found while working in Newdigate, Rusper and other villages around Horley. He loved God and he loved Nature and having observed that nothing in nature was completely straight, he determined that his timber-framed houses should be likewise and so be in complete harmony with the trees around them!
Only ancient bricks, stone, tiles and oak beams were used in the construction of these homes and every effort was made to avoid a ‘mechanical’ appearance. His builders were not permitted to use plumb lines, so that the vertical accuracy of the construction depended entirely on the judgement of the eyes. Similarly, rows of bricks were deliberately set slightly out of line and the ridges of roofs distorted to give the appearance of having sagged with age. Any moss growing on the old tiles was carefully preserved, so that on the day of completion, his timber-framed houses appeared in a style aptly described by one historian as ‘wibbly-wobbly’. These homes not only appeared ancient, but were genuinely ancient on the very day of their completion. Bricklayers were often reluctant to work on the buildings that Shadbolt designed in this style, for fear that, because of the uneven nature of the bricklaying, their future employment prospects might be jeopardised. It was said by a builder of the time that some bricklayers who worked on these buildings, even took to covering their faces, so that they would not be recognised.
Such was Blunden Shadbolt’s talent and attention to detail that, in years long past, several of
his houses were believed to be centuries old and inadvertently classified as ‘Listed Buildings’.
Today, a growing number of his houses have been ‘Listed’ and ‘Graded’ by Local Councils
with full knowledge of the year of construction, but on their own merits and because they were
designed by Blunden Shadbolt. It is important to note that not all the timbered houses designed
by Blunden Shadbolt were built in this ‘wibbly-wobbly’ style, as this would depend on the
wishes and financial resources of each customer and Blunden’s own consideration of the area
surrounding the proposed site.
Typical features found on Shadbolt’s ‘wibbly-wobbly’ timber-framed properties are:– complex
multi-gabled roofs; roof ridges that appear to have sagged with age; catslide roofs – having one
side longer that the other; upper rooms that overhang the room below; minstrel’s galleries;
exterior brickwork deliberately laid out of true horizontal and vertical alignment; walls of rooms
not truly vertical or square to one another; massive chimneys, often on outer walls and
inglenook fireplaces, some having a small window in the inglenook. A few of his houses feature
an oriel window.
Blunden was greatly encouraged by the sales and enquiries that had resulted from exhibiting
his nature-blending show homes in the Ideal Home Exhibitions of 1924 and 1926 and now 48
years of age, he married Joyce Woodward Court in the Solihull, District of Warwickshire, on
2nd August 1927. They then returned to live above Blunden’s office at 32, Victoria Road,
Horley, where they remained until early in 1930, by which time he had decided to build a family
home for his wife and first daughter on the one and a half acres of orchard covered land that he
had acquired in 1929. The beautiful timbered-framed home and office that he built on this land
was aptly named Orchards and it was completed in 1930.
During the ensuing period, Blunden Shadbolt’s reputation spread further afield and, by 1939,
his timber-framed properties were to be found in Barns Green (near Horsham); Betchworth;
Blindley Heath; Bognor Regis; Charlwood; Copthorne; County Oak (near Crawley); Danbury,
Essex; Esher; Haslemere; Highgate; Hindhead; Hope (in Derbyshire); Horley; Kingston; Lowfield
Heath (near Crawley); Margate; Maidenhead; Mill Hill, (London); Newchapel (near Lingfield);
Newdigate; Newhaven; North Lancing; Outwood; Oxshott, Leatherhead; Peasmarsh (near
Battle); Petersham; Pinner; Pyrford Green; Reigate; Rusper; Salfords; Watford and Worth (near
Crawley, Sussex).
Blunden Shadbolt was qualified both as an Architect and a Structural Engineer, so that during
WWII, his time was almost entirely taken up advising on the structural repairs of buildings
damaged by bombing, and when the war ended in 1945, he finally retired.
Tragically, Blunden died during the summer of 1949, when he was knocked off his bicycle by
a car. He was then 70 years of age. An architect who turned his dreams into delightful reality,
Blunden Shadbolt was the most generous of men, to whom “having money” was simply not the
most important thing in his life. His love of God and of Nature is reflected in the beauty of his
buildings and we are indeed fortunate that he left such a wonderful legacy in this south-eastern
corner of England.
© David H. J. Schenck Revised 20th August 2017 david.schenck790@btinternet.com
You are welcome to share this mini-biography with others providing it remains complete and unaltered.

'''Owners' notes (2017)'''

Over our 20 years ownership we we have added and altered the house to suit our lifestyle. Many older buildings are no longer fit for purpose and there are many ways of improving them
The house is much admired by passers by and we have been very happy living here. Purists might not approve of some of our changes but we believe that the essential charm is still there. Let us take you through the main changes.
The house in 1997 was very small and the living room dominated by a large inglenook. A back addition had been converted to a bathroom. The kitchen was very basic and the equipment past its best.
To maximise the space we added a conservatory to the back, restored the bathroom to living space and removed one wall. The re equipped kitchen was opened up into an open plan ground floor. Sandstone cladding was installed around the rather ugly corbelled chimney and an open gas fire inserted .Central heating and underfloor heating was installed. The whole of the ground floor was re-surfaced with a light coloured hardwood which makes the place much brighter.
We created a scullery using part of the kitchen and divided it to add a wet room / toilet accessed from the hallway .
On the first floor, some of the windows were so highly positioned that one could not see out without standing on tip toe so we had some of the rear windows lowered. The back addition provided a roof terrace accessed by a door from one of the two bedrooms, providing a pretty, sunny spot particularly in the afternoon particularly. The fireplace in the second bedroom has been hidden to create much needed cupboards. The pitched ceiling on this floor was originally just rafters, liner and tiles, contributing to massive heat loss so it was lined with simple white painted MDF, becoming much less visually 'busy'.
Between the two bedrooms was a bathroom plus toilet. We installed a downstairs comby boiler , releasing enough space to put in a separate WC.
The garage at the front was too small for any modern car so it has become a study. The original doors were replaced by double glazing. We also replaced some of the leaded light windows with double glazing. But we had to work within our budgets and - as artists we took decisions according to our taste but mainly practical reasons. Leaded windows reduce the light coming in through the small openings, they interrupt the precious view outwards and they were in bad condition, letting in the cold and expensive to replace.
Recently we built a second conservatory on the North side of the house. This now serves as a gallery to which the public are permitted.To the rear are ponds and a deck area.
So as you can see we have done a great deal of work to make our charming 'Wibbly Wobbly" cottage liveable while preserving enough of the original character.

'''NOTES ON TIMBER FRAMING ETC'''

'''Tudor Style Houses.''' It soon became apparent that Blunden Shadbolt had a strong leaning towards the use of exposed timberwork on the exterior walls of his houses in what was known generally as “Tudor Style”. However, there was more than one constructional method of achieving this result, so it important to explain the ways in which architects used timber in their designs.

'''Timber-Framed or ‘Half-Timbered’ Houses'''. The centuries-old process of timber-framing was a method of construction, the enduring qualities of which have been long proven, as is evidenced by the many ancient timber-framed homes that are still to be seen in so many towns and villages of England – and even more so in Germany, where the process is called ‘Fachwerk’. Once the oaken framework had been completed and erected, the open spaces (panels) between the beams were filled with “wattle and daub” – this involved vertical branches of very flexible wattle (acacia) being interwoven horizontally with thinner branches. The thicker, vertical branches were fitted into holes drilled in the horizontal beams at the head and foot of each panel, while the horizontal branches were fitted into slots in the sides of the panel. The resulting interwoven fillings were then daubed with ‘clay mud’ mixed with straw and/or hair to complete the panel filling, which was later whitened to contrast with the dark beams.

However, by the early 1900s, the wattle and daub process was giving away to panels being infilled with bricks and it was based on the idea that the materials used in the construction of the exterior walls were half of timber and half of brick, that led to these houses being referred as being “half-timbered”.

In this construction process, several courses of brick or stone are laid on the foundations to form a base for the timber frames. Then, sawn or hewn beams, mostly of oak, are cut with mortice and tenon joints, each of which is individually marked with a ‘Carpenter’s Mark’, as a guide to the assembly of the frame. The bottom beam, of the frame, called the ‘sill beam’, is placed on a layer of mortar on top of the brick or stone wall. All the frames are then assembled in an upright position and the mortice and tenon joints firmly secured with wooden pegs known as studs. The photo-graph on the right, taken early in 1924, shows a part-completed frame with several panels in the process of being filled with bricks and a small, leaded-light window, already fitted in its frame, during the construction of Brockholt, a lovely timber-framed home in the village of Salfords, near Redhill, Surrey. This photograph is taken from an article by Captain P.A. Barron, published in the former Town & Country Homes magazine in June 1925, less than a year after the house was completed. The article was found in Blunden Shadbolt’s briefcase. Note the massive, gnarled bresummer (crossbeam) that defines the front of the inglenook fireplace. Once the brickwork supporting the ends of this bresummer has been built, then it will have to bear the weight of brickwork up to, at least, ceiling height and often higher.

When creating his timber-framed homes, Shadbolt preferred to use variations of a colourful mix of stock bricks, including red, purple, yellow and even black, as if discoloured by soot from a chimney. This gentle colour-mix blended well with the countryside as may be seen in the entry for Brockholt on page….. However, many owners or successive owners of these houses have since elected to paint the exteriors of their homes in a wide variety of colours, but mainly white, cream or pink masonry paint.

'''Imitation or “Faux”-Timber-Framed Houses'''
Many people loved the romantic look of timber-framed homes, but in the 1920s and 30s, they were somewhat more expensive than the average conventionally built home and not everybody could afford one. However, it is evident that there was a clear demand for houses that looked just like a timber-framed building, but at a lower price – and this led to the creation of “Imitation Timber-framed” houses or, as they came to be known, “Faux-timbered” houses, or more recently “Neo-Tudor”, but this term also applies to timber-framed houses designed after the early 1920s. Although Blunden Shadbolt is best known for his timber-framed homes, he also designed even more houses that were faux-timbered as opposed to being timber framed.

In the faux-timber process, sawn planks of about 4 inches wide and 1¼ inches thick were cut to the required length and sometimes shaped to a curve and nailed to the brickwork in the form of panels. The spaces within the panels were then rendered with a mortar infill and the depth aligned with the face of the timbers. Unlike timber-framed houses, the timberwork has no structural function at all.

Even from a short distance, faux-timbered homes looked just like timber-framed buildings, and the introduction of even cheaper, semi-detached versions of faux-timbered homes, designed for middleclass owners, led to their becoming immensely popular, so that by the 1930s, they could be found in the leafy lanes of many towns and villages, especially in the south-east of England. Similarly, detached faux-timbered homes designed for the more affluent, also gained considerable popularity. Early in the same period, Blunden Shadbolt designed eleven unattached, faux-timbered homes, each on half-acre plots, in Dayseys, Lane Outwood, Surrey. All the houses had four bedrooms, three reception rooms, a bathroom, kitchen, coal cellar and attached garage and the selling price was £1250.

From time to time, articles have appeared that containing disparaging comments about faux-timbered houses. This simply cannot be justified, for one only has to see the entry for The Coppice in Reigate, Surrey to understand just how fine these homes can be.

'''Decorative Timbers'''. Such timbers are mostly seen in the gables of houses and vary widely in design. In effect, these are planks of wood about one and a quarter inches thick, that have been shaped as required and nailed to the gable wall. Then, as in faux-timbered houses, the spaces between them are rendered with a mortar infill and aligned with the face of the timbers. They are purely decorative and have no structural function at all.

----
This page is part of the [[Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings]] in Teddington assembled
by the [[Planning Group|Planning]] and [[History Group|History]] Groups of [http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk/ The Teddington Society].
Click on any photo for a higher resolution version. Copyright for the material on this page rests with the contributor.

[[Category:BTMs]]
[[Category:Buildings]]

Udney Park Road 36

2017-11-06T16:02:17Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:Udney_Park_Rd_36.jpg|200px|thumb|left|36 Udney Park Road]]

[[File:UPRd_36.jpg|200px|thumb|left|36 Udney Park Road]]

'''Road''': [[Udney Park Road]]

'''Property''': 36

"Detached 2-storey house built after 1932. This house was built of old bricks and timber to give an "olde worlde" effect. Small latticed windows, tiled roof & integral garage." TeddSoc 1975.

See following notes on 36 & 38 put together by David Schenck of Horley from his research on the distinguished Horley, Surrey Architect, Blunden Shadbolt (1879-1949), R.I.B.A.

Blunden Shadbolt (1879–1949) Lic.R.I.B.A.
Architect with the Eye of an Artist
Born in an affluent area of Wandsworth in 1879, Blunden Shadbolt had a singularly unfortunate childhood. When he was only two years of age he lost his father, a timber merchant who specialized in mahogany. Devastated and unsettled, his family moved to three different towns over the next few years. As a young boy he was of mild and rather timid disposition, so that when he attended school, he was subjected to bullying. Thankful when his school days ended, he found employment with a firm of architects in Chelmsford.
In 1898, Blunden, moved with his mother and two elder sisters from Sudbury, Suffolk to Horley in Surrey where he was articled to architect and surveyor, Arthur Kelway Bamber, who had recently moved to Horley from Chelmsford. However, for reasons unknown, Bamber left Horley in the following year and Blunden was forced to travel to London to complete his training with the far more experienced architect, George A. Hall, a Fellow of the British Institute of Architects whose office was in Victoria Street, London. By the end of 1899, he had returned to Horley and by 1901, had completed work on several houses, the designs of which were typical of the period.
But what of the amazing multi-gabled, timber-framed buildings with their complex roof structures for which he later achieved renown? Blunden was a deeply religious man of outstanding integrity and was strongly influenced by the lovely rural surroundings that he found while working in Newdigate, Rusper and other villages around Horley. He loved God and he loved Nature and having observed that nothing in nature was completely straight, he determined that his timber-framed houses should be likewise and so be in complete harmony with the trees around them!
Only ancient bricks, stone, tiles and oak beams were used in the construction of these homes and every effort was made to avoid a ‘mechanical’ appearance. His builders were not permitted to use plumb lines, so that the vertical accuracy of the construction depended entirely on the judgement of the eyes. Similarly, rows of bricks were deliberately set slightly out of line and the ridges of roofs distorted to give the appearance of having sagged with age. Any moss growing on the old tiles was carefully preserved, so that on the day of completion, his timber-framed houses appeared in a style aptly described by one historian as ‘wibbly-wobbly’. These homes not only appeared ancient, but were genuinely ancient on the very day of their completion. Bricklayers were often reluctant to work on the buildings that Shadbolt designed in this style, for fear that, because of the uneven nature of the bricklaying, their future employment prospects might be jeopardised. It was said by a builder of the time that some bricklayers who worked on these buildings, even took to covering their faces, so that they would not be recognised.
Such was Blunden Shadbolt’s talent and attention to detail that, in years long past, several of
his houses were believed to be centuries old and inadvertently classified as ‘Listed Buildings’.
Today, a growing number of his houses have been ‘Listed’ and ‘Graded’ by Local Councils
with full knowledge of the year of construction, but on their own merits and because they were
designed by Blunden Shadbolt. It is important to note that not all the timbered houses designed
by Blunden Shadbolt were built in this ‘wibbly-wobbly’ style, as this would depend on the
wishes and financial resources of each customer and Blunden’s own consideration of the area
surrounding the proposed site.
Typical features found on Shadbolt’s ‘wibbly-wobbly’ timber-framed properties are:– complex
multi-gabled roofs; roof ridges that appear to have sagged with age; catslide roofs – having one
side longer that the other; upper rooms that overhang the room below; minstrel’s galleries;
exterior brickwork deliberately laid out of true horizontal and vertical alignment; walls of rooms
not truly vertical or square to one another; massive chimneys, often on outer walls and
inglenook fireplaces, some having a small window in the inglenook. A few of his houses feature
an oriel window.
Blunden was greatly encouraged by the sales and enquiries that had resulted from exhibiting
his nature-blending show homes in the Ideal Home Exhibitions of 1924 and 1926 and now 48
years of age, he married Joyce Woodward Court in the Solihull, District of Warwickshire, on
2nd August 1927. They then returned to live above Blunden’s office at 32, Victoria Road,
Horley, where they remained until early in 1930, by which time he had decided to build a family
home for his wife and first daughter on the one and a half acres of orchard covered land that he
had acquired in 1929. The beautiful timbered-framed home and office that he built on this land
was aptly named Orchards and it was completed in 1930.
During the ensuing period, Blunden Shadbolt’s reputation spread further afield and, by 1939,
his timber-framed properties were to be found in Barns Green (near Horsham); Betchworth;
Blindley Heath; Bognor Regis; Charlwood; Copthorne; County Oak (near Crawley); Danbury,
Essex; Esher; Haslemere; Highgate; Hindhead; Hope (in Derbyshire); Horley; Kingston; Lowfield
Heath (near Crawley); Margate; Maidenhead; Mill Hill, (London); Newchapel (near Lingfield);
Newdigate; Newhaven; North Lancing; Outwood; Oxshott, Leatherhead; Peasmarsh (near
Battle); Petersham; Pinner; Pyrford Green; Reigate; Rusper; Salfords; Watford and Worth (near
Crawley, Sussex).
Blunden Shadbolt was qualified both as an Architect and a Structural Engineer, so that during
WWII, his time was almost entirely taken up advising on the structural repairs of buildings
damaged by bombing, and when the war ended in 1945, he finally retired.
Tragically, Blunden died during the summer of 1949, when he was knocked off his bicycle by
a car. He was then 70 years of age. An architect who turned his dreams into delightful reality,
Blunden Shadbolt was the most generous of men, to whom “having money” was simply not the
most important thing in his life. His love of God and of Nature is reflected in the beauty of his
buildings and we are indeed fortunate that he left such a wonderful legacy in this south-eastern
corner of England.
© David H. J. Schenck Revised 20th August 2017 david.schenck790@btinternet.com
You are welcome to share this mini-biography with others providing it remains complete and unaltered.

'''NOTES ON TIMBER FRAMING ETC'''

'''Tudor Style Houses.''' It soon became apparent that Blunden Shadbolt had a strong leaning towards the use of exposed timberwork on the exterior walls of his houses in what was known generally as “Tudor Style”. However, there was more than one constructional method of achieving this result, so it important to explain the ways in which architects used timber in their designs.

'''Timber-Framed or ‘Half-Timbered’ Houses'''. The centuries-old process of timber-framing was a method of construction, the enduring qualities of which have been long proven, as is evidenced by the many ancient timber-framed homes that are still to be seen in so many towns and villages of England – and even more so in Germany, where the process is called ‘Fachwerk’. Once the oaken framework had been completed and erected, the open spaces (panels) between the beams were filled with “wattle and daub” – this involved vertical branches of very flexible wattle (acacia) being interwoven horizontally with thinner branches. The thicker, vertical branches were fitted into holes drilled in the horizontal beams at the head and foot of each panel, while the horizontal branches were fitted into slots in the sides of the panel. The resulting interwoven fillings were then daubed with ‘clay mud’ mixed with straw and/or hair to complete the panel filling, which was later whitened to contrast with the dark beams.

However, by the early 1900s, the wattle and daub process was giving away to panels being infilled with bricks and it was based on the idea that the materials used in the construction of the exterior walls were half of timber and half of brick, that led to these houses being referred as being “half-timbered”.

In this construction process, several courses of brick or stone are laid on the foundations to form a base for the timber frames. Then, sawn or hewn beams, mostly of oak, are cut with mortice and tenon joints, each of which is individually marked with a ‘Carpenter’s Mark’, as a guide to the assembly of the frame. The bottom beam, of the frame, called the ‘sill beam’, is placed on a layer of mortar on top of the brick or stone wall. All the frames are then assembled in an upright position and the mortice and tenon joints firmly secured with wooden pegs known as studs. The photo-graph on the right, taken early in 1924, shows a part-completed frame with several panels in the process of being filled with bricks and a small, leaded-light window, already fitted in its frame, during the construction of Brockholt, a lovely timber-framed home in the village of Salfords, near Redhill, Surrey. This photograph is taken from an article by Captain P.A. Barron, published in the former Town & Country Homes magazine in June 1925, less than a year after the house was completed. The article was found in Blunden Shadbolt’s briefcase. Note the massive, gnarled bresummer (crossbeam) that defines the front of the inglenook fireplace. Once the brickwork supporting the ends of this bresummer has been built, then it will have to bear the weight of brickwork up to, at least, ceiling height and often higher.

When creating his timber-framed homes, Shadbolt preferred to use variations of a colourful mix of stock bricks, including red, purple, yellow and even black, as if discoloured by soot from a chimney. This gentle colour-mix blended well with the countryside as may be seen in the entry for Brockholt on page….. However, many owners or successive owners of these houses have since elected to paint the exteriors of their homes in a wide variety of colours, but mainly white, cream or pink masonry paint.

'''Imitation or “Faux”-Timber-Framed Houses'''
Many people loved the romantic look of timber-framed homes, but in the 1920s and 30s, they were somewhat more expensive than the average conventionally built home and not everybody could afford one. However, it is evident that there was a clear demand for houses that looked just like a timber-framed building, but at a lower price – and this led to the creation of “Imitation Timber-framed” houses or, as they came to be known, “Faux-timbered” houses, or more recently “Neo-Tudor”, but this term also applies to timber-framed houses designed after the early 1920s. Although Blunden Shadbolt is best known for his timber-framed homes, he also designed even more houses that were faux-timbered as opposed to being timber framed.

In the faux-timber process, sawn planks of about 4 inches wide and 1¼ inches thick were cut to the required length and sometimes shaped to a curve and nailed to the brickwork in the form of panels. The spaces within the panels were then rendered with a mortar infill and the depth aligned with the face of the timbers. Unlike timber-framed houses, the timberwork has no structural function at all.

Even from a short distance, faux-timbered homes looked just like timber-framed buildings, and the introduction of even cheaper, semi-detached versions of faux-timbered homes, designed for middleclass owners, led to their becoming immensely popular, so that by the 1930s, they could be found in the leafy lanes of many towns and villages, especially in the south-east of England. Similarly, detached faux-timbered homes designed for the more affluent, also gained considerable popularity. Early in the same period, Blunden Shadbolt designed eleven unattached, faux-timbered homes, each on half-acre plots, in Dayseys, Lane Outwood, Surrey. All the houses had four bedrooms, three reception rooms, a bathroom, kitchen, coal cellar and attached garage and the selling price was £1250.

From time to time, articles have appeared that containing disparaging comments about faux-timbered houses. This simply cannot be justified, for one only has to see the entry for The Coppice in Reigate, Surrey to understand just how fine these homes can be.

'''Decorative Timbers'''. Such timbers are mostly seen in the gables of houses and vary widely in design. In effect, these are planks of wood about one and a quarter inches thick, that have been shaped as required and nailed to the gable wall. Then, as in faux-timbered houses, the spaces between them are rendered with a mortar infill and aligned with the face of the timbers. They are purely decorative and have no structural function at all.

----
This page is part of the [[Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings]] in Teddington assembled
by the [[Planning Group|Planning]] and [[History Group|History]] Groups of [http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk/ The Teddington Society].
Click on any photo for a higher resolution version. Copyright for the material on this page rests with the contributor.

[[Category:BTMs]]
[[Category:Buildings]]

Udney Park Road 36

2017-11-06T15:56:12Z

KeithAtkinson:

Udney Park Road 38

2017-11-06T15:45:51Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:Udney_Park_Rd_38.jpg|200px|thumb|left|38 Udney Park Road]]

[[File:UPR38.jpg|200px|thumb|left|38 Udney Park Road]]

'''Road''': [[Udney Park Road]]

'''Property''': 38

"Detached house similar in style to [[Udney Park Road 36|no. 36]]. It is reached by a long drive and stands partly behind [[Udney Park Road 36|no. 36]]. Built of old bricks it is a large house with latticed windows and oak front door." TeddSoc 1975.

View the notes on 36 Udney Park Rd for the history of these two houses (Nov 2017)

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File:UPR38.jpg

2017-11-06T15:43:55Z

KeithAtkinson:

Udney Park Road 38

2017-11-06T15:43:21Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:Udney_Park_Rd_38.jpg|200px|thumb|left|38 Udney Park Road]]

[[File:UPR38.jpg|200px|thumb|left|38 Udney Park Road]]

'''Road''': [[Udney Park Road]]

'''Property''': 38

"Detached house similar in style to [[Udney Park Road 36|no. 36]]. It is reached by a long drive and stands partly behind [[Udney Park Road 36|no. 36]]. Built of old bricks it is a large house with latticed windows and oak front door." TeddSoc 1975.

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This page is part of the [[Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings]] in Teddington assembled
by the [[Planning Group|Planning]] and [[History Group|History]] Groups of [http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk/ The Teddington Society].
Click on any photo for a higher resolution version. Copyright for the material on this page rests with the contributor.

[[Category:BTMs]]
[[Category:Buildings]]

File:UPRd38.jpg

2017-11-06T15:39:58Z

KeithAtkinson:

Udney Park Road 38

2017-11-06T15:37:37Z

KeithAtkinson:

[[File:Udney_Park_Rd_38.jpg|200px|thumb|left|38 Udney Park Road]]

[[File:UPRd_38.jpg|200px|thumb|left|38 Udney Park Road]]

'''Road''': [[Udney Park Road]]

'''Property''': 38

"Detached house similar in style to [[Udney Park Road 36|no. 36]]. It is reached by a long drive and stands partly behind [[Udney Park Road 36|no. 36]]. Built of old bricks it is a large house with latticed windows and oak front door." TeddSoc 1975.

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This page is part of the [[Directory of Buildings of Townscape Merit (BTMs) and Listed Buildings]] in Teddington assembled
by the [[Planning Group|Planning]] and [[History Group|History]] Groups of [http://www.teddingtonsociety.org.uk/ The Teddington Society].
Click on any photo for a higher resolution version. Copyright for the material on this page rests with the contributor.

[[Category:BTMs]]
[[Category:Buildings]]