A List of the
Properties Built by Allen and Norris as accurate as I can get it
Last
updated: December 2008
[ROGER THIS FOLLOWS
IMMEDIATELY AFTER SLANREST]
It’s roughly in
chronological order, by estate. Within
each estate I’ve listed the roads in alphabetical order. I give the dates of the drainage applications
where I’ve got them. Sometimes I haven’t
got drainage applications, or they’re very vague about the properties applied
for. I’ve walked along all the streets
to check all the properties look the same and can therefore be counted as by
Allen and Norris; where that ISN’T the case, I say so.
After the authorities
have granted you permission to build, you’ve got to start construction work
within six months, and finish before a date supplied to you as part of the
permission. If you don’t start before
your first deadline you have to apply again; if you don’t complete by your
second deadline, you have to apply again - which is why some house numbers are
in the list below more than once.
Beginning with MORRISON’S
FARM on the west side of Wandsworth Bridge Road in Fulham. William Gilbert Allen began building this
estate in 1896 just before Henry Norris and he formed their partnership.
Ashcombe Street all 1896
Beltran Road all 1897
29-31 and 34-36 were built as maisonettes
Clancarty Road 1-73 1896
Friston Street all mid 1898
Narborough Street 1-29 late 1896
2-34 early 1897
Settrington Road 38-108 1899
2-36 unknown but other evidence indicates
they are definitely Allen and Norris
Probably 1899
Wandsworth Bridge
Road is complicated.
134-298 and the joinery works
next to 298 spring 1896 to mid-1898
134-210 are shops with living quarters above
212-294 are maisonettes
296-298 were Allen and Norris’ first offices; with the joinery and
stables next
door
Woolneigh Street all June 1899
There are only a few houses in Woolneigh Street. There would have been more, but in the spring
of 1899 the LCC refused Allen and Norris’ request to have the street extended
eastwards into what was then a market garden and is now South Park.
BATTERSEA/CLAPHAM
Hill Crest, Thurleigh Road 1897
Brooklands, Thurleigh Road 1898
CRAB TREE LANE (1) 1-69 1898
1-5 were built as maisonettes
69 is a corner shop
West of FULHAM
PALACE ROAD on the bishop of London’s estate. In essence, Allen and Norris built all the
houses in the roads listed below although I couldn’t find some of the drainage
applications so some numbers are missing.
Finlay Street 5-72
only 1905
The rest of Finlay Street was built by a different firm
Fulham Palace Road west side is a tricky one! There are very few
drainage applications for the properties on Fulham Palace Road between the
south side of Crabtree Lane and the north side of Harbord Street. Just to add a little something to my
confusion, I’ve found that there’s no number 302 Fulham Palace Road, and no
number 374.
288 - may have been built by Allen and Norris; but I’m perfectly ready
to accept that it was built by another firm.
290-300
As 288 but despite the design being so different from anything else
Allen and Norris built, there are drainage applications by Allen and Norris
that seem to refer to this short run of houses, which were built (one by one, I
think) between 1898 and 1900.
I’m quite sure that
Allen and Norris built the properties from 304/06 to 468/70 - it’s another run
of their houses-as-maisonettes design but on a much grander scale than any of
the maisonettes they built elsewhere. As
there are so few drainage applications that I can identify as being for 304-470
that I’ve assumed below that properties on the main road were built while Allen
and Norris were working on the nearest side road:
304/06-340/42 spring 1901
344/46-354/56 summer 1901
358/60-370/72 June 1903
Allen and Norris’ lease of the land between Langthorne Street and
Harbord Street was not signed until June 1904.
440/42-468/70 June 1904
408/10-436/38 Sep 1906
376/78-404/06 May 1908
Allen and Norris’ run
ends with 468/70, on the north corner with Harbord Street; they didn’t build
any properties south of that.
Greswell Street 1-25,
2-58 1905 all the houses in the street
Harbord Street 1-45,
2-48 1904
93-145, 98-150 1906
5-91, 6-96 were built as maisonettes
145-147, 150-150a were built as maisonettes
Inglethorpe Street 1-51,
2-52 1903
6-16, 5-15 1904
101, 103 1904
55-99, 56-104/106 1906
101-107, 104/106 were built as maisonettes
Kenyon Street 1-56 1903
57-103, 60-104 early 1908
55, 58, 106 mid 1908
Langthorne Street 2-62,
3-59 mid 1902
1 Jan 1903
59, 62 mid 1903
Lysia Street 2-8 May 1899
10, 12 June 1899
2-14 Sep 1899
16-26, 3-35, 23-38 Nov 1900
2 Jan 1901
40-74, 37-71 Feb 1901
71, 74 Sep 1901
Niton Street 10,
12, 3-9, 14-24 Sep 1899
11-25 Nov 1899
26-48 Feb 1900
51-73, 50-74 Sep 1900
Queensmill Road 2-46 May 1901
1-15, 48-70 Sep 1901
17-65 Oct 1901
15-22 Apr 1902
23-36 June 1902
27-34 Jan 1903
Woodlawn Road 49-71 Jan 1908
FULHAM PALACE ROAD
east side
Atalanta Street 1-47,
2-40 Nov 1899 all the houses in the street
2-14 Sep 1900
Branksea Street 1-23 Nov 1899
2 May 1900*
*actually 2-10 were applied for; but only 2 was built
Fulham Palace Road 225/227-305/07 unknown! But probably 1899-1900
All built as maisonettes
275 as commercial premises 1916
Kingwood Road 68-100 June 1899
The rest of the houses in the street are older; they weren’t built by
Allen and Norris.
SOUTHFIELDS in Wandsworth
Gatwick Road 1-25,
2-32 Oct 1910 all the houses in the street
Granville Road 41-105 Sep 1911
All the other houses in the street were built by other firms
Hambledon Road 2-48,
1-39 Sep 1911 all the houses in the street
2-24 Mar 1913
Standen Road 116-110 June 1910
All the other properties in the street are older and were built by other
firms
Wimbledon Park Road 161-139 June 1910
161 is a corner shop with a small oriel window, the only such that Allen
and Norris built; it’s on the corner with Standen Road.
137-115 Aug 1910
130-116 Sep 1910
113-73* Feb 1911
130-116 Sep 1910
Garage at 130 Dec 1910
130 was Allen and Norris’ estate office
100-82* May 1912
114-102 July 1912
*73 and 82 are at the corner with Granville Road; properties on
Wimbledon Park Road north of this crossroads are either much earlier, or
modern.
I’m not sure Allen and
Norris built 152-132 Wimbledon Park Road.
I can’t find a drainage application from the partnership for those
properties, which do seem to be a different design from Allen and Norris’
others on the main road. The
southern-most properties on Allen and Norris’ Southfields site seem therefore
to be 161 on the east side and 130 on the west side.
Wincanton Road 1-53,
2-62 Sep 1911 all the houses in the road
CRAB TREE LANE (2) the CRABTREE LANE ESTATE
Bowfell Road 1-29,
2-30 May 1913
Colwith Road is another puzzle. More seems to have been applied for than
actually got built - probably because the war intervened.
1-19, 2-14 Dec 1912 these
are houses
21/23-113/115, 72/74-144/146
It’s been difficult to date these.
They’re probably 1912-13. They
were all built as maisonettes, the only such on the Crabtree Lane Estate.
Allen and Norris also
applied to build 16-82 Colwith Road, as houses, in Dec 1915. However 16-42 don’t exist now and I can’t see
any evidence that they were ever built; and 44-68 look like 1930s designs to
me. There’s no number 70.
Crabtree Lane 2-40 Sep 1911
Ellaline Road 1-37,
2-38 Sep 1911
Fulham Palace Road 190
as temporary structure Sep 1911
190 was Allen and Norris’ estate office from 1911-1919. From 1919 to the 1970s it was the
partnership’s only office. It’s still an
estate agent now.
192-206 Nov 1911
208-226* Jan 1912
220 Dec 1912
182-190 Sep 1913
174-182 Dec 1913
*222-226 doesn’t seem to ever have been anything more than a garage.
I have some evidence
that Allen and Norris also built 162-164 - they were in existence in the 1920s;
however the properties at those addresses in 2008 are modern offices. I’m not sure 166-190 was ever built; apart
from 190, the row 166-190 is now derelict.
[Nanette]Larnach Road 1-37, 2-38 Sep 1911
[Dorset Lane]Nella Road 1-41, 2-44 Sep 1911
2 Sep 1913
[Gilbert]Rannoch Road 1-73, 2-58 Sep 1911
105-127 May 1912
90-122 May 1912
72-80, 89 May 1913
64-70 July 1913
11, 105 Apr 1914
56-62 Dec 1914
Rosedew Road 1-47,
2-28 July 1912
24-28 Oct 1915
[Dalton]Silverton Road 1-37, 2-38 Sep 1911
Skelwith Road 1-29,
2-30 Dec 1912
Wingrave Road 2-32 Dec 1912
Apart from 1, not built by Allen and Norris,
2-32 are the only houses in the street.
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW
MORE ABOUT THE SOURCES OF ALL THIS INFORMATION, SEND ME AN EMAIL AND I’LL SEND
YOU THE SOURCES FILE.
Copyright Sally Davis December 2008
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