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Adelaide Road
developed c. 1840 by Thomas Pooley.
Berrylansa Road
Berry Lodge on the Tolworth border. Berry Lodge Dairy Farm
supplied milk to Surbiton
Claremont
Gardens:
Partly on site of
Ellmers which was an old farm previously Beale's Farm. Bought in 1882 by Corbett. Surbiton Assembly Rooms 1889
Site of Ellmers
House demolished.
Claremont Road
Built by Thomas
Pooley 1840s and named Railway Road.
Later developers changed its name. From the first phase of development
Ewell Road
Site of windmill
landmark, brickfield belonging to John Selfe. Housing Of the mid c19 with
stucco -trimmed terraces
1 Railway Tavern
Fishponds, a plain Georgian house of 1742.
Prince of Wales
296 Richard
Jeffries. (Then
No. 2 Woodside) the naturalist author, lived
there 1877-82, a time when there was only open country beyond as far as Ewell, and the present highroad was nothing
more than a winding lane.
Surbiton Council Offices. This picturesque two-storey building. uilt in a style described by the architects
W.W.A.Forsyth and H.Maule as a design of free but dignified English Renaissance
served Surbiton for nearly seventy years. Following amalgamation with Kingston
in 1965 it became a Crown Court.
117 New Prince.
A beer house from the 1850s taken over by Charrington. Darts and so on.
Kingston Station 21st May 1838. London and Southampton Railway. North of present Surbiton Station 1845
Resited. This early station wasn’t really Kingston, and not really Surbiton
either – although it was nearer to that than Kingston. The railway company did
not initially design the line for suburban traffic. Described as ‘little better
than a hut’ it was east of where Surbiton Station now stands between Ewell Road
and King Charles Road.
73 Horner Cottage. Listed
Grade II, Conservation Area. c19. Cottage ornee. Round headed windows with
pointed lights and trellis porch. one of a few older houses.
Ewell Bridge Road
First Kingston
Station in a cutting to the west. Just a
hut
Reached by a
stair down the embankment from South Terrace.
King Charles
Road:
Castle Pub old
Nightingales Brewery Pub
Christ Church 1862. by C.L. Luck, a. local architect and member
of the congregation. Lengthened 1866, Brick with stone dressings. front
elaborate and rather 'chapelly' with a plate-tracery rose flanked by little
turrets. The intended tower was never built. Interior with polychrome brick
arches on columns; circular clerestory windows within round- headed arches.
Elaborately painted timber roofs with tie- beams on large brackets. Remodelled
by K. White & Partners, 1977, when the end and the chancel were converted
to meeting rooms and the altar placed in the centre of the aisle. Stained glass
windows by Clayton & Bell, Heaton, Butler & Bayne; the rest mostly by
Lowers & Barraud, including the triple window at the end of the aisle,
1871, to a design by Burne Jones, given by N. H. Layers.
Kingston Common
Area: around the
station site of Battle of Kingston. Lord
Holland skirmish with Roundheads and lost.
Villiers killed.
Oak Hill Grove
Oak Hill Lodge, home of Arthur Bryant of the matches
The Sanctuary
Park Road
Site of Nichols
estate. Berrylands Farm area bought by
Nicols of the Cafe Royal and included Regent House, deer park and Regent Farm.
Railway Line
Line from London – the diversion of this line in the 1830s
away from Kingston neccessited a deep cutting under Surbiton Hill.
Regent Road
Called after
Regent House Estate locally
Seymour Gardens
Nichols Estate
South Bank View
Hillcroft College.
Built as The Gables for Mr.Wilberforce Bryant of Bryant and May in
1884. Private meeting room and theatre
which any useful or religious body could use free. Military hospital. Hillcroft bought it in 1926. The more
picturesque influence of the Norman Shaw school appears in the rambling
composition of Hillcroft
Theatre on site
of Glenbuck Court
St.Mark's Hill
Surbiton Station. Between Hinchley Wood and also Thames Ditton and also Esher and
Berrylands on South Western Rail. Within
a year of the earlier station being built a developer, Thomas Pooley, had
donated the site of what is now Surbiton Station On the line from Nine Elms, to
Guildford, built 1885. The Station was called Kingston in 1838. In 1839, still
very primitive, people had to walk over the fields to it. When a station was built in Kingston proper
in 1863 this station was renamed ‘Surbiton and Kingston’. Rebuilt 1883, again in 1938. One of the first to acknowledge the existence
of a modern style in 1937-8 Plain geometric shapes of reinforced concrete
rendered and painted. Central booking office; asymmetrical clock tower.. It was
been rebuilt a number times, but its 1938 redesign was remarkable and it
remains an important building. It is was built by J.R.Scott of the Southern
Region’s Architects Department. An amazing structure.
Winthrop House.
Ten-storey office block in modern style.
by Fitzroy Robinson & Partners, 1959- 60,
Previous station
to the north east, 1890-1900
Denby Dale pub
Surbiton
Surbiton.’ Suberton’ 1179, ‘Surbeton’ 1263, ‘Surpeton’
1486, ‘Surbiton’ 1597, that is 'the
southern grange or outlying farm', from Old English ‘suth’ and ‘bere-tun’, so
called in relation to Norbiton; both were granges of the royal manor of
Kingston - the king’s estate by a ford on the river and
its outlying farms were called ‘bartons’.
It was known as Kingston New Town, or Kingston-on- Railway as it was
starting to be called in 1841, when the railway had arrived . In 1855 it was
already a select middle-class area large enough to become a local authority
independent from Kingston. The centre is now rather a mess. Despite unfeeling
rebuilding of the 1930s onwards, the strata of respectable suburban development
can still be traced, from neat stucco paired villas and terraces still in the
Regency tradition, via Ruskinian eclecticism, to the more expansive outer
suburbs of the 1890s. received its
Charter of Incorporation in 1936, and is a handsome modern suburb which grew
from almost nothing with the coming of the railway. Here some new blocks of
flats have been erected on the riverside promenade and close to the railway
station. The leading shops are situated in Victoria Road and Brighton Road. Of
late years the town has expanded considerably in the direction of Tolworth,
where many new houses and shops have been erected on the Kingston by-pass road.
Clocktower. little Gothic of 1905-6
Surbiton Common
1648 last engagement of the English Civil War.
Now-vanished
common, where in 1648 the
Parliamentarians defeated a body of Surrey Royalists under the Earl of Holland and the Duke of Buckingham,
who were returning from an attack on
Kingston. This was the last engagement
of any significance in the Civil War.
The Paint Research
Association, originally known as
the Research Association of British Paint, Colour and Varnish Manufacturers,
was founded in 1926 in founder director Dr Louis Jordan's house at Surbiton
before moving to a
disused candle factory in Teddington.
Odeon: November 1949.This
dramatic Odeon, a mile from Kingston on Thames, boasted its name in huge
letters mounted on the canopy when it opened. Demolished and site is now a
Waitrose
St. Mark’s Hill
St Mark,
completely remodelled by P. C. Hardwick in 1855. Destroyed in the Second World
War, except for the tower and spire and rebuilt in a deplorable style by Milner
& Craze, 1960.
Surbiton
Crescent
Built by developer Woods on the site of the grounds of
Surbiton Hall.
Surbiton Park
Was Selfe Park
made by John Selfe? Selfe tried to
develop the area with Pooley. Painter
and plumber from Thames Street, ex bailiff of Kingston. Tried to found a waterworks in the area. Brick and tile maker in Surbiton
Surbiton Hill
Road
Hollyfield School with four-column Ionic porch
Little Elmers at
junction with St.Mark's Hill, John Selfe's home
4
(Elmers Cottage and boundary walls), listed.
10,
Hexagon House, listed
The Crescent
Example of first
office building in Surbiton Developed by Thomas Pooley in 1841 and called
Claremont Crescent, he lived in the first house. facing a pleasantly mature
public garden
The Avenue
Manor House Convent School with two curved bays
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