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Liphook Crescent, LONDON, SE23 3BW

Compare with https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/758375 which shows the same house in 2008. Within the last year, it has been gutted and renewed, the garage being removed and replaced by a new window in the former position of the front door with a new front door next to it. It is good to see the original patterned glass being retained.

A lovely unspoilt 1930's house in Forest Hill.

This tower folly was built in the grounds of Tewkesbury Lodge, a large house built in the 1880s for Herbert Charles Beyer. The house was demolished around 1930 and the area developed into what is now known as the Tewkesbury Lodge estate. The house itself was where 1, Horniman Drive was built www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6432193. The folly, built of Kentish ragstone was on the ridge at the edge of the grounds with views east over South London and west over Kent. It is now a spectacular garden feature of a house in Liphook Crescent and is quite difficult to see, except through the gap between the houses.

The third most obvious example of 1930s modernism on the Tewkesbury Lodge Estate. See also the more flamboyant Welcome Aboard https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/758554 and the third example just down the road https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6432193. Forest Hill has more than its fair share of 1930s modernist buildings as well as the Horniman Museum which is a rare example of Art Nouveau architecture in the UK.

A very pleasant corner of the Tewkesbury Lodge Estate. Built in the 1930's after the sale and demolition of the house of the same name, the roads thread their way up and along the ridge, One of the houses still has in its garden, a folly tower built in the 1880's.

Dating from 1935, this house was designed by Francis G. Sharp, in a style influenced by late Arts and Crafts. It was later the home of Arthur Verstage, himself an architect and reputed to have designed the first Blue Plaque and was a founder of the William Morris Society. An extension has been built recently and can just be seen behind the ivy on the right-hand side. Information credit to Sue Grindley, 20th Century Society notes 2005

Five detached houses line up pleasingly on a curving gradient. These have appeared in at least two television adverts.

A bland 1980s block of flats built on the site of the orchard attached to 31, Horniman Drive, which itself was aligned to take advantage of the aspect over the garden. This explains why the house has a severe frontage onto the road and how the sale of the land for development detracted from the original design. See https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6435771

With a gradient of 18%, Canonbie Road is reputed to be one of the steepest roads in London.

Canonbie Road, Forest Hill. 18% steep hill down sign.