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Hambledon Close, UXBRIDGE, UB8 3UD

I had never heard of Colham Green before but that's where it is.

This is the northern of a pair of roundabouts on the A437 Harlington Road. The southern one is at the junction with Pield Heath Road and is in Image

A surprisingly rural view of farmland in this urban area but not available for public access. I was on a derelict road, closed to vehicles but used by pedestrians, and had to take this photograph through a high chain link fence.

The wall around the former nursery site is Grade II Listed, and the English Heritage site describes it thus:- "Ranges of red brick walls of C16 or early C17 appearance, although they are laid in Flemish bond. Very irregular bricks, some extremely narrow. In places a tall, sloped coping with further, straight-edged coping above." The whole nursery site, the wall excepted, has been redeveloped for housing. This is the west side of the wall in Barwick Drive.

This utilitarian laundry building contrasts with the attractive old terrace of houses, the ground floors of which have been converted into lock up shops. Photographed from the central reservation of the Uxbridge Road.

The wall around the former nursery site is Grade II Listed, and the English Heritage site describes it thus:- "Ranges of red brick walls of C16 or early C17 appearance, although they are laid in Flemish bond. Very irregular bricks, some extremely narrow. In places a tall, sloped coping with further, straight-edged coping above." The whole nursery site, the wall excepted, has been redeveloped for housing. This is the south side of the wall in Glasshouse Close.

Vine Cottage is an early to mid 19th Century villa on the Moorcroft estate. It is Grade II Listed and the English Heritage website describes it thus:- "Early-mid C19 villa of 2 storeys, 3 windows. Hipped slate roof with eaves soffit. Stock brick. Gauged brick arches to windows, those on 1st floor altered casements, those on ground floor replaced sashes with glazing bars. Half glazed 4-panel door under segmental arch with blocked fanlight. Wood trellis porch with swept lead roof. Group value. Moorcroft, the Wall to South, House to North-East, stable and Coachhouse to North and Vine Cottage form a group." It is currently in commercial use.

Laundry and dry cleaning.

Moorcroft Lane may have been a road in the past, but now it's a fairly overgrown footpath. Someone has thought it necessary to put up this barrier though.