Windmill Road: House names and numbers
Date in brackets is earliest reference found to existence of house |
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East side (odd numbers) |
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Corner of |
Toll house was on this site until the 1880s. Demolished and the present building opened in 1893 as the Co-op. Buckell & Ballard and Oxford Design in 2012 |
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1, 3, 5 |
Built by 1911, but replaced by Units 1–4 of The Parade in 1935 |
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7 |
Rosslyn Villa (1883); the house still exists as Units 5 and 6 of The Parade |
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9 |
Cuddesdon Villas 1 (built by 1911) |
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13 |
“1 Windmill Lane” (built by 1891); aka 1 Sunset Villas, and later 1 The Firs |
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17 |
“3 Windmill Lane” (built by 1891); aka 3 Sunset Villas |
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21 & 23 |
Formerly Labour Club; replaced by flats in 1996 |
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25 |
‡West View 1 & 2 (built by 1889) |
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29 |
“7 Windmill Lane” (built by 1889) |
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35 |
“10 Windmill Lane” (built by 1891) |
Car park (was children’s playground in 1920s)] |
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St Leonard’s Road (formerly Southern Road) |
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45 |
— [built in 1930s] |
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49 |
— (1921) |
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55 |
‡Glencairn (built by 1911) |
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59 |
Grocer’s Shop (built by 1898); later part of Vallis’s, and part of Blanchford’s in 2012 |
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59A |
Built in 1929, demolished c.1980 to widen Blanchford’s entrance |
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61 |
Vallis’s Builder’s Yard (by 1909, and probably by 1906); |
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63 |
— (built by 1911) |
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65 |
Lynton (built after 1911, before 1916) |
71 |
Wellneath (built by 1898) |
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73 |
— (built by 1898) |
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77 |
— (1930s) |
Langley Close (built c.1934) |
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79 |
Oakthorpe (built by 1911) |
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83 |
Steyning Cottage (built by 1911) |
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87 |
— (built by 1898) |
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89 |
— (built by 1911) |
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93 |
Redcliffe House (built by 1898) |
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95 |
Hollydene (built by 1911) |
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99 |
Holly Cottage (built by 1911) |
101 |
— (built by 1911) |
105 |
— (built by 1911) |
Margaret Road (just two houses in 1911) |
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109 |
‡Oaklea (built by 1911) |
113 |
Glendale (date on this pair of houses: 1906) |
117 |
Ferndale (built by 1911) |
121 |
Nursery View (built by 1911) |
125 |
Elm View (built by 1906) |
129 |
Oakdene (built by 1906) |
131 |
‡Sandvale (built by 1906) |
133 |
Padbury (built by 1906) |
137 |
‡Cranford (built by 1906) |
141 |
— (1916) |
Gathorne Road (formerly Alexandra Road) |
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145 |
Hillandale (built by 1906) |
147 |
Ashleigh (built by 1911) |
151 |
‡Myrtle View (built by 1911) |
155 |
‡Headlands (built by 1911) |
Windmill House |
In the 1920s, there were seven dwellings, known as “Windmill Cottages”, on this site. These comprised the original miller’s house and cottage, plus five cottages made from the ruins of the Windmill around 1880. They were all demolished in the 1950s. |
159 |
— [built in 1930s] |
163 |
— [built in 1930s] |
167 |
— [built in 1930s] |
171 |
— [built in 1930s] |
Rock Edge (former quarry) |
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West side (even numbers) |
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2 & 4 |
Dring’s Coaches from 1907 (two houses and yard); |
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6 |
Shop, 1909. Mrs Barton’s draper’s shop in 1909; Japlene in 2012 |
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10 & 12 |
Shop, inscribed with date of construction: 1909 |
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14 |
Shop, inscribed with date of construction: 1910 |
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16 |
‡St Helens (built by 1911) |
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18 |
‡Dulwich House (1918) |
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22 |
Northam (1915) |
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26 |
‡Higham Villas (1915) |
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30 |
Rosemary Cottage (1921) |
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34 |
‡The New House (1916) |
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34A |
— Built in the 1930s in the entrance way to a former orchard |
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36 |
Huelva (1912) |
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38 |
— (1915) |
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42 |
— (built by 1911) |
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46 |
Nutts Coal merchants (1921) |
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48 |
Rougemont (1913) |
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50 |
‡Ardgowan (built by 1911) |
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54 |
‡Uplands (built by 1911) |
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58 |
Shop (built by 1911). May have been called Tayford |
---------Bateman Street (formerly East Road)----------- |
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60 |
Conservative Club (inscribed 1928) |
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60A & 60B |
— (built in c.1935 as a single house, No. 60A, |
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62 |
Harby Cottage (built by 1911) |
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64 |
— (1898) |
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68 |
‡Winthorpe (built by 1911) |
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70 |
‡Tolworth (built by 1911) |
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72A |
Shop built in 1920s. Grain’s Tobacconist shop (1924); Ford’s secondhand shop in 2012 |
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74 |
S. West & Sons (1898); private housing in 2012 |
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76 |
Hill View, then Gleanbury Cottage (1898) |
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78 |
Olveston (built by 1903) |
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80 |
Druidstone (built by 1906) |
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82 |
— (1898) (Victorian house with deceptive cladding) |
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84 |
Poplar Cottage (inscribed 1893) |
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88 |
“John Mattock’s house” (1890); demolished and rebuilt as Champneys Court in 2008 |
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90 |
White House (built by 1911); demolished and rebuilt as Edna Rose Court in 2008 |
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (was side entrance to Wingfield Convalescent Home) |
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Not yet identified: Beaulie and Pen Bryn (from 1911 census) |
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