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Academy Gardens
Addiscombe
Edescamp 1229, Adescompe 1279, Addescompe 1416, Addescombe
1456, that is 'enclosed land of a man called Eddi, from Old English camp and an
Old English personal name. The same man Eddi may have given name to Addington.
Addiscombe Grove
Neil stables/garage
Addiscombe Road
17th Parsons Farm. Addiscombe land owned by the Royal Military College
for the Indian Army. Went to Woolwich in 1866, sold to British Land Company,
1875. Nest of villas and two churches
India House site of Addiscombe Place and Tudor site Vanbrugh/Thornhill,
1869. East India Co. military academy. Roads on the estate named after East
India. Co. people
96 Heronscroft, 17th, cottage with jettied front brick, 1676 rural survivals, stranded in suburbia
107 Cricketers Pub. Collection
of jugs and bric a brac
281, flint and brick, with
the date 1676.
Commercial Union House. 1965/8 large. One of the best of New Croydon. By the
Austin-Smith/Lord Partnership. Partly twelve-storey, it has a projecting frame
clad in white mosaic, with a crisp rhythm of paired uprights and strong
horizontals. Recessed walling m black mosaic, with black-painted window frames.
An almost detached three-storey block forms a porte-cochere
General Accident Fire and Life Insurance, 1961-3 by Biscoe & Stanton, eight-storeyed,
oblong, with precast concrete elements, designed unfortunately so that the
whole looks rather like folded paper, canting forward and backward. Even the
angles do this, so that one feels like stretching the shape straight or
squashing it. The window mullions also cant inward and outward, contradicting
the plain oblong glazing
NLA House by R. Seifert &
Partners, 1968-70, octagonal and twenty-three storeys high, i.e. the highest
building in Croydon of its date, and, like the same architect's slightly
earlier Centre Point, squeezed on to the middle of the roundabout. The building
has a curious rhythm of canted bays projecting in alternating positions. So in
fact no floor plan is strictly octagonal. They are square with splayed corners,
the splay of one always placed above the middle of a side of the next lower
Villas – the road continues
towards the suburb of Park Hill with some conventional stucco-trimmed villas
St.Mary Magdalene, 1870. Church of St.Paul, but now Park Hill estate.
More spacious, 1861. Ecclesiastical commissioners but no water until 1870s.
Replaced by Wates Housing
East India Co cadet school gas customers
Lebanon Road Tram Stop. 1998. Between East Croydon and
Sandilands on Croydon Tramlink
Sandilands Tram Stop. 1998. Between Addiscombe and also
Lloyd Park and Lebanon Road on Croydon Tramlink
Bute Street
Name connected to Addiscombe Place
Canning Road
Name connected to the
military school at Addiscombe Place. Allude to a Governor-General of India, the holder of the office at the
time of the Indian Mutiny.
Chertsey Close
Chichester Road
St.Matthew, 1965/77. David Bwh. Relocated here in 1971 as a large
church for the new housing of Park Hill. It is a bold brick hexagon, windowless
to the road, entered by a triangular foyer with tall clerestory. A hall with
split pitched roof and stained glass made up by John Hayward from old glass
from St Matthew, George Street. In the foyer is glass from St John. Sculpture of two angels from the old St,
Matthew’s church.
Wates housing of
the 1970s yellow brick with tile- hanging, pleasantly laid out
Clyde Road
Name connected to Addiscombe Place
Ashleigh left from the college
India left from the college
Croydon Park
Elgin Road
The Name is connected to
the military school at Addiscombe Place and alludes to a Governor General of India.
George Street
Congregational Church
Black Horse
Grant Road
Havelock Road
The name is connected to
the military school at Addiscombe Place and refers to the Indian Mutiny.
Gymnasium Havelock Hall 1809-1861 now in industrial use, brown brick, round- headed windows, the only
major relic of the East India College founded in 1809 by the East India Company
and closed in 1861. Converted to flats.
Hill Rise.
Wates 1962 with in house architect K.W.Bland using ideas
from Span.
Langton Way
Mulberry Lane
Addiscombe House – reputed
secret passage to Addiscombe Place. Mulberry tree was in the garden.
Nicholson Road
One of the local street names, which
allude to Governors-General of India. It meets Lower Addiscombe Road opposite
its junction with Outram Road
Outram Road
Name connected to
Addiscombe Place and to the Indian
Mutiny.
20 Frederick George Creed, blue black teleprinter inventor. 1871-1957 'electrical engineer, inventor of the
teleprinter, lived and died here' Creed was born in Nova Scotia and came to Britain in
1897. After a brief spell in Glasgow he lived most of his life here during a
lifetime of research into the practical and commercial possibilities that
emerged following the invention of the telephone. At the turn of the 20th
Century, he started work at nearby factory premises that had been adapted to
produce the teleprinter he had invented and which newspaper offices all over
the world eventually had installed. Plaque erected 1973
Pembroke
Lodge on the site of Addiscombe Place.
Addiscombe
Place on the corner with Mulberry Lane. 1702 built by Vanburgh and replaced an
Elizabethan mansion. 1809 sold by Emelius Ratcliffe to the East India Company
as their military seminary. College closed in 1861 and sold in 1853.
Park Hill
Park Hill Recreation Ground. Opened in 1888
Water tower. 1860 with an earlier brick service
reservoir demolished 1867. Brick, in the Norman style. 100' high. Turret was a
flue for the engine house, demolished, to pump water to the tank. Gutted 1971.
Disused. By Baldwin Latham. Brick, in the Norman style preserved as a landmark. Hill recreation ground and park where the Park Hill Water Tower
(1867) can be seen. The structure is now empty and roofless. The mound to the
south is all that remains of the demolished cylindrical brick-vaulted covered
reservoir of 1850-51. Local landmark.
Shell beds. Oysters scattered through the sand.
Park Hill Rise
Hill Rise, 1962-3 b; K. W. Bland, Wates's chief
architect
Park Hill Road,
An estate of Victorian villas laid
out by the Church Commissioners in 1861 once a proper water supply had been
established. Largely replaced by Wates'
housing of the 1960s-70s. Much of it pleasantly brick or tile-hung, in the Eric
Lyons tradition.
Marshfield. Flats 1968 are groups of
flats by Auston Vemon & Partners,
Cotelands flats 1968 are groups of flats by Auston Vemon & Partners,
Turnpike Link, by F. Cr. MacManus & Partners, 1966-8,
two- and three-storey terraces, austerely de tailed in pale brown brick with
slate-grey panels and grouped excellently round landscaped courtyards. The
plum-coloured tower block is by Bland.
St.Bernard's. 21 houses in three terraces 1968. Sensitive
French system derived from Corbusier. Few equals in Britain. By the Swiss architects A Teller,
partner-in-charge Anatole di Fresne for Wates. Originally 147 houses were
planned. Group with few equals in Britain: the architects have sensitively
adapted the stepped terrace system of their Siedlung Halen at Bern to the gentler
suburban slopes of Surrey, replacing rough concrete with brown stock brick and
timber stained or painted white. Each house is approached through an enclosed
garden with an outdoor eating room under a pergola, at an upper level, the
living room having a panorama to distant hills. The bedrooms open on to a
second, lower garden. Car parking is underground.
Sonnenberg
Terraces -Less demanding by
John Bridges of Wates, 1969-71.
Park Hill Village.
Church Commissioners estate mid-Victorian, now Wates housing
in the Eric Lyons tradition. 1962-70 using variety of architects
Radcliffe Street
Name connected to Addiscombe Place
Radcliffe tunnel carried the former Woodside & South Croydon Railway (closed in 1983)
under Park Hill, on the east side of the town. They are now used by the modern
Croydon trams, 145m A bored tunnel with elliptical brick-lined
arch profile
Railway Line
Tunnel. Built in 1860s by J.Firbank. It was
Very difficult through Woolwich and Reading clay. The centre of the hill had
fallen in so it needed a deep central cut into the middle and then short
tunnels outwards and the centre had to be cut and cover. There is Ventilation
shaft at either end of this tunnel. 2 miles long but very difficult - three
tunnels. There were many earth slips on the line. In 1983 a study was
commissioned to consider turning it into a road. It took three years
to construct this very short railway. The three closely spaced tunnels reflect
the geotechnical difficulties. The railway closed in 1983 and part is now used from
the Sandilands tram stop for Tramlink.
Woodside Tunnel 266 yards. – a standard bores of elliptical profile though mainly London Clay.
Park Hill Tunnel 122 yards.
Built through quicksands and loose running pebble beds.
It is a cut-and-cover tunnel under a semicircular arch along the floor of a
large cutting made in the centre of the hill - to remove the most troublesome
ground made up of Blackheath, Woolwich and Reading Beds.
Coombe Lane Tunnel 157
yards. – a standard bores of elliptical profile though
Thanet Sand respectively.
Dell between the tunnels,
which was there before 1914 where there was a rifle range. It was visited by
various natural history societies.
Cutting. The original London
and Brighton Railway line built in 1841 running southwards from East Croydon
was composed of two tracks in a conventional cutting with sloping sides through
Thanet Sand. It was been widened in the 1860s and the 1890s and now has five
tracks without additional widening of the area because sloping cutting sides were
been cut back and replaced by brick retaining walls. The bases of supports for
overhead electric wires before third-rail electrification can still be seen.
Selbourne Road
Archbishop Tennison School 1960s. Curtain walled.
St.Mildred. Hare 1931
Stanhope Road
Park Hill House was near here. It was originally
built for the keeper of the deer park for the Archbishops of Canterbury.
Rebuilt several times and demolished in 1949.
Park Hill Junior and Infant
School 1968.
Red Lodge. A crisp tile-hung Lutyens-style house by W. Curtis Green, 1911.
Stanhope Lodge Sudbury Gardens
Temple Road
Name connected to Addiscombe Place,
Thornhill Street
Name connected to Addiscombe Place
Trinity Close
Turnpike Hill.
Three storey houses. Plus plum coloured tower block. 1966.
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