Nightingale Hall, c.1890. This shows a castellated façade with a large conservatory, probably Victorian modifications, on the SW side, suggesting an earlier building in the background.
This is the sixth in our series on Lost Houses of our area. This edited text was written by the late Albert Pinching, HHS Sales Manager for 21 years and editor for 14 years of our annual journal, the Bulletin, who died at the end of July this year. The full text was a chapter in ‘People and Places: Lost Estates in Highgate, Hornsey and Wood Green’, published by HHS in 1996.
Before the advent in 1859 of Wood Green Station (now Alexandra Palace Station) on the Great Northern Railway (GNR) much of the area was farmland claimed from the Great Forest of Middlesex. One of the few distinctive buildings was Nightingale Hall, situated on the SW side of Bounds Green Road, covering the site now occupied by the Adventist Church, with its outbuildings and gardens extending over what are now Northcott and Cornwall Avenues. [Read more…] about Lost Houses: Nightingale Hall, Wood Green
This is the fifth article in the series on Lost Houses of the Hornsey area. This mid-19thcentury house and grounds was situated on Southwood Lane (now Muswell Hill Road N10) and is associated with the Victorian literary elite.[Read more…] about Lost Houses: Woodlands, Muswell Hill
Topsfield Hall, Crouch End, 1894, shortly before demolition
This is the fourth article in the series on Lost Houses of the Hornsey area. It has been written by Alice Jenkins, a sixth form History student at Highgate Wood School, who has spent her summer holidays on work experience with the HHS Archive volunteers and who will shortly be applying to universities for admission in autumn 2022. HHS wishes her well.
We continue the series on Lost Houses of the Hornsey area with this important Stroud Green addition.
Stapleton Hall, 2021
There is not much left of Stapleton Hall, but what there is became a listed monument in 1986 and now forms part of a complex of flats on Stapleton Hall Road in Stroud Green. Not far away on Crouch Hill the Stapleton Tavern uses the same name as the house and road. [Read more…] about Lost Houses: Stapleton Hall, Stroud Green
John Cathles Hill (1857 -1915) was, ‘a very remarkable man of immense energy and vision’. So wrote his grandson, JEB Hill, in May 1997, to Joan Schwitzer, HHS Chairman. JC Hill built up large parts of North London, founded The London Brick Company and became one of the richest men of his time. He lived at Southwood Hall from 1894 until 1905. [Read more…] about John Cathles Hill of Southwood Hall
Henry Virtue Tebbs Jnr.(1833-1899) was the eldest son of Henry Virtue Tebbs and his second wife Emma. In true 19th century fashion he had been given his father’s name and followed his father’s profession as a Proctor and lawyer. Not surprisingly, this has led to much confusion. However, the son’s artistic interests set him apart from his father about whom we have learned already. [Read more…] about Lost Houses: Interesting Links to Southwood Hall, Highgate
We have previously looked at Southwood Hall in Highgate as part of the Lost Houses series and reference was made to two important 19th century occupants, Henry Virtue Tebbs and John Cathles Hill. This article focuses on the life of HV Tebbs (1797–1876).
After the departure in 1905 of the last occupants, John Cathles Hill and family, the house became a girls’ school run by the Misses Rowe who moved it from Sussex House, Bishopswood Road, Highgate. Their school was ‘for the daughters of Gentlemen’. [Read more…] about Southwood Hall School 1905–1930: Two Memories
This is the second article in the series on Lost Houses of the Hornsey area. This house has such interesting connections that a number of articles in the future will focus on its occupants and their connections.
Southwood Hall was built on the ancient Highgate or Southwood Common, used in medieval times for grazing animals; by the end of the 18th century about 4 acres had been cleared and two properties built. Southwood Hall was subsequently built on this plot. [Read more…] about Lost Houses: Southwood Hall, Highgate
This month we are starting a 2021 series of articles on Lost Houses of the Hornsey area. We begin with Brick Place, the oldest known substantial house we know of, north-east of Hornsey village. [Read more…] about Lost Houses: Brick Place
