This is a guide to the best period properties in Greenwich. It covers architectural types, the history of the road plus key properties in each road. We have added some maps to show Greenwich’s growth over the years:
Early Victorian Greenwich
Mid Victorian Greenwich
Edwardian Greenwich
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SE10 8AG map
Architecture and history: mixed styles.
Comments: Busy road part of A2 but near the common. In borough of Greenwich.
Key Properties:
No 31 (built c. 1760 by Michael Searles of Paragon fame).
Nos 37-45 (remains of earlier C19 terrace).
Nos 72-74 (remains of earlier C19 Union Terrace).
Nos 87-91 (built c. 1790).
Nos 106 & 108 (built c. 1760).
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SE10 8PE map
Architecture and history: Varied styles.
Comments: Busy main road part of A2.
Key Properties: Nos 23-9 (stuccoed villas c.1820)
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SE10 8HG map
Architecture and history: Period houses from C17 to C19.
Comments: Borders Greenwich Park.
Key Properties:
Nos 6-12 (two pairs built 1723)
Nos 14-36 (various dates, 14 is later C18, 16-18 are late C17 with later stucco, 26 late C18)
Nos 52 The Grange (C17-C18)
Nos 54-60 (terrace of c. 1760)
No 66 (1630s)
No 68 (1697)
Manor House (built c.1695 for Sir Robert Robinson, Lord Lieutenant of Greenwich Hospital) |
Croom's Hill Grove (C19+) |
Dartmouth Grove (C18+) |
Dartmouth Row (C17+) |
Gloucester Circus (C18+) |
SE10 8HB map
Architecture and history: 1838
Comments: Cul de sac
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SE10 8AT map
Architecture and history: Properties date from C18.
Comments: Overlooks the heath.
Key Properties: Sherwood & Lydia House (Stuccoed pair built in 1776).
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SE10 8AW map
Architecture and history: Some buildings date from the 1690s.
Comments: Near to the heath.
Key Properties:
Nos 20-22 (possibly late C17 but altered and stuccoed).
Nos 21 Spencer House and 23 Percival House (both originally one house 1689?).
Nos 28-36 (varied dates 28 is 1794, 30 has a Palladian front of c. 1730). |
SE10 8RY map
Architecture and history: Begun by Michael Searles (c. 1791-1809). Only south part built as planned, a plain crescent with three-bay houses. North side was damaged in WWII.
Comments: Central garden for the private use of Gloucester Circus residents.
Key Properties: Nos 1-8 |
Greenwich Park Street (C19+) |
Hyde Vale (C19+) |
King William Walk (C18+) |
Maze Hill (C18+) |
SE10 9LT map
Architecture and history: Some houses are part of the Trenchard Street Estate, a development carried out by Greenwich Hospital Estates c.1913.
Comments: Greenwich Power Station (1905) is nearby.
Rail: Maze Hill
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SE10 8QH map
Architecture and history: Developed from 1829. Mostly terraces dated c. 1840.
Key Properties: Nos 56-64 (C18) |
SE10 9JH map
Architecture and history: Early C18
Comments: Named in 1870.
Key Properties:
No 11 (early C18)
Nos 12-15 (early C18) |
SE10 8XG map
History: Marked Moys Hill on Rocque’s 1745 map
Comments: Borders Greenwich Park.
Key Properties: Nos 32-34 (Grade II listed). Vanbrugh Castle 1719 (listed Grade I). |
SE10 8SF map
Architecture and history: Early Victorian
Key Properties: 23-32(Grade II listed) |
SE10 8RT map
Architecture and history: C18 onwards
Key Properties: Nos 30-36
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