Park Road 16, "Adelaide House"

"Adelaide House" (left), 16 Park Road

Road: Park Road, Teddington

Property: 16, "Adelaide House"

Grade II listed in 2006. The listing description is as follows:

(The left-hand house of a) "Pair of semi-detached houses of different build. Early-mid C19. No. 14 may be a remodelling of an earlier house of 1728. No. 16 is thought to have been built in 1835. C19 extensions to rear. Rear elevations altered late C19.

MATERIALS: Stock brick in Flemish bond, façades and return to No. 14 stuccoed. Extensions to rear in red brick. Late C19 tile-hanging to rear second-floor elevations. Slate roofs.

PLAN: 3-storeys and three bays. The plan comprises a rectangular frontage block with rear wing on N side forming L-plan. Frontage block comprises off-centre entrance hall with one room to either side, and with stair to the rear. The rear wing appears originally to have been 2-storeys, with a second floor added in C19. There is a 2-storey extension to rear of this wing, with a further single storey range extending to W. EXTERIOR: The porch is placed slightly off-centre to right, with pilasters and side windows with margin-light sashes. Six-panel door. Moulded architraves to windows. Six-over-six pane sashes. Hipped roof behind parapet with moulded cornice. Rear elevation: Ground and first-floor windows to the main house are blocked. Second-floor stair landing has sash window with coloured margin lights. The late C19 windows to the second floor are raised above parapet level. C20 brick toilet extension in angle of house and rear wing. INTERIOR: Doors to ground-floor rooms, and entrance, of main house have reeded architraves with corner rosettes. Plaster modillion cornice to hall and first-floor landing. The dog-leg stair with winder to turn has slender turned newels (that to ground floor replaced), stick balusters and mahogany handrail. The interior retains much early-mid C19 joinery, including six-panelled doors, door and window architraves, some plaster cornices and ground and first floor, shutters, skirtings, and chimneypieces, some with original grates. Later C19 cornice to upper floor S room; that to N room modified.

HISTORY: The houses occupy the site of a pair of cottages, possibly of C17 or earlier date. No. 14 is thought to have been built on the site of the northern cottage in 1728. In 1834 the cottage to the south was sold, and a new house built on the site the following year, believed to be no. 16 Park Road. It is possible that the remodelling of no. 14 took place c. 1842, when the two properties were in one ownership.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: Of special interest as pair of early-mid C19 neo-classical houses which retain their essential plan form, staircases and a number of original features. No. 14 may contain earlier fabric from an C18 house. They are important survivals of the elegant houses built throughout the Georgian period when Teddington, like neighbouring Twickenham and Richmond, was an affluent, semi-rural retreat from London."

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© Historic England 2006. The National Heritage List Text Entries contained in this material were obtained on 10/7/13. The most publicly available up to date National Heritage List Text Entries can be obtained from http://www.historicengland.org.uk

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