Upper Sydenham roads

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Sydenham Property Guide: Upper Sydenham roads

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Info	Charlecote Grove	Crescent Wood Road	Halifax Street

Borders: Dulwich Wood and Westwood Hill. Park: Sydenham Wells Rail station: Sydenham HillPrime roads: Jews Walk, Sydenham Hill Architecture: Victorian-Modern 1862 Map	map Originally named Charles Street. Renamed Charlecote Grove in 1930s.	map Road off Sydenham Hill that has a SE26 post code but is in the borough of Southwark. The name refers to the shape of the road and its proximity to Dulwich Woods. John Logoe Baird, the inventor of television lived at No 3. Key house: Six Pillars (1934) by Berthold Lubetkin’s Tecton practice	map Houses built for the Crystal Place. Now a conservation area. One of Sydenham’s most sought-after roads

Hall Drive	Jews Walk	Lawrie Park Gardens	Lawrie Park Road

map Victorian period onwards. Originally The Drive leading to John Lawrie’s Sydenham Hall (1805-1939). Named Hall Drive in 1936.	map Victorian period architecture. Built in c.1854 and named in 1878.	map Period architecture. Named in 1903, but originally called Lawrie Road after John Lawrie (1812-1889) who lived at Sydenham Hall. Grounds of the house purchased by Crystal Palace Company and sold to a developer	map Named in 1903, but originally called Lawrie Road after John Lawrie (1812-1889) who lived at Sydenham Hall. Grounds of the house purchased by Crystal Palace Company and sold to a developer. Park Court (1936) flats are by Frederick Gibberd in the International Style.

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