page_title: Sulhamstead Estate, Chiswick
section_title: Modern roads
hierarchical_section_title: Sulhamstead Estate, Chiswick / Modern roads
caption_attribution_description: English: Housing
context_page_description: The Sulhamstead Estate is an area in Chiswick where most of the current buildings were built between 1875 and 1905. The housing varies from some that are bigger than those in Bedford Park to some smaller than the houses on the Glebe Estate. The builders also vary from land owners selling off bits of their property, to individuals buying a small plot to build their own house.
context_section_description: The shape of Annandale and Brackley Roads could be seen on Rocques map, the layout of the other roads can be seen in the 1847 Tithe map. The estate had been split into 15 areas plus the shops on the High Road and was owned by 7 people. 
  Plots number 475, 477 and 478 was part of the Prebendal Lands owned by Charles Welstead Esq and the meadows and garden were occupied by John Gardner. 
  479, 480 and 481 is where Gordon House and Grovesnor House are, these were owned by Thomas How, who also owned the neighbouring Manor Farm, plot 417. Mr How lived in Gordon House and rented the other two houses out. Five of these plots and the small square behind the shops are where Cranbrook Road and Brackley Terrace are today. Plot 480 and part of 479 became Tower House and created the corner in Cranbrook Road, Manor Farm is now Wilton Avenue.
  Plot 491 is Park House, it isn't given its own rentcharge in the listings, so must have been owned by one of the big landowners. On an 1814 plan showing designs for Chiswick House Gardens it is coloured green along with plot 476, suggesting they were part of Chiswick House Garden and Park.
  498 is the Packhorse and Talbot, at the time it still had gardens behind the pub, it was owned by John Houl and occupied by Philip Honess. 499 is Thorncroft House, it is listed as being owned by Inigo Jones and occupied by Mr Hoole. Annandale House and gardens, plots 500 and 501, were both owned by George Robins but occupied by two different people. A small pathway to plot 501 can be seen that is now Ingress Street. Sulhamstead House was plot 502 and its gardens plot 476 these were both owned by Everett Brand who lived in the house.
  The roads were under construction in 1880 and it is mentioned in the CIC minutes that the “developers of the new Sulhamstead Estate were told to form a more costly 40 foot-wide road at its southern end.” In October 1881 it was reported in The Building News that the Chiswick Improvement Commissioners were in a despairing mood about the frequent infringements of the bye Laws by the builders in Chiswick. At a meeting of the board, the surveyor, Mr H. O. Smith said he was seeing the most flagrant cases of infringement. With the delays and difficulty in bringing cases before the magistrate, he had eight cases on hand, none of which had been adjudicated upon, and some of the buildings had been roofed in. Even if they were convicted the magistrates fine was optional and they generally inflicted a fine of half a crown. The builders laughed at the commissioners as they had gained about £100 by scamping on the work. 
  By 1883 there were additional building bye Laws, “yet still ‘jerry-building’ practices continued, with old tins of fish and meat found substituted for hardcore in Sulhamstead Estate streets.”
  The development of the roads was much slower than the neighbouring estates. In the 1896 Report of the Medical Office of Health for Chiswick, Sulhamstead Estate had an estimated population of 1435. Chiswick New Town had 2223 and the Glebe Estate had an estimated population of 2795.
  The gardens of Sulhamstead House, plot 476, eventually became Swanscombe Road, Coombe Road, Alkerden Road and some of Devonshire Road. These four roads were marked out and then sold as individual plots.
  Coombe Road was originally part of Swanscombe Road and the name first appears in the Rate books in 1882 and there were 39 houses owned by 9 people.
  Swanscombe Road has been renumbered twice since it was built. Number 1 Swanscombe Road was the first to be built in 1881 and it was known as Cleveland house. The following year there were 2 sets of 1 to 7 in the rate book. The houses that are currently numbered 2 to 22 were originally numbered 1 to 11 and the houses that are now 10 to 22 Coombe Road were also 1 to 7 Swanscombe Road, the following year the houses in Coombe road were known as 1 to 7 Clarence Villas and the other houses that had been built on that side of Coombe road numbers 2 to 8, were 53 to 50 Swanscombe Road. 
  The odd numbers in Coombe Road 1 to 21 were originally 54 to 64 Swanscombe Road and when they wer
caption: To the left of the picture is Beaumont House, next to that is Mr Carter's house, the next two houses were owned by Mrs Brain.
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