|
High Road, Langdon Hills - West Side (1) |
| Shops, houses, businesses & public
buildings between St. Mary's & All Saints Church and Alexander Road |
| Property Name | Property Type |
Nature of occupation | Built
Approx |
Status |
| St. Mary's and All Saints | Church |
1877 | In use |
| Crown Meadow | Open Space | Pavilion and cricket field (Langdon Hills Cricket Club).
Pavilion destroyed by fire 1990s. Cricket is no longer played there; the last match occurring sometime in the 1990s. |
Pre-1939 | Open to public |
| Post Office | Post Office/Newsagent
Single-storey with thatched roof attached to house | Post Office (Ralph Marcus Lee
postmistress: Elizabeth M.A. Richardson later c.1929 Saunders
Nellie Rumsey)
c.1922 public telephone service (inside).
Demolished c.1963 when the High Road (B1007) was realigned and duelled. |
1905 | Demolished c.1963 |
No.1
Police Cottage | Semi-detached house | Demolished c.1964 when the High Road (B1007) was realigned and duelled. |
Pre-1918 | Demolished c.1964 |
No.2
Police Cottage | Semi-detached house | As above. |
Pre-1918 | Demolished c.1964 |
| The Grove | House | Residence |
Pre-1919 | Occupied |
| Butlers Grove House | House | Residence |
Pre-1929 | Demolished c.1967 |
| 3 Butlers Grove House | Farmhouse
Drapery & General Store
W.H. Smith Post Office & General Stores (Smith's Stores)
House | --
Curtains etc.
Provisions, Confectioner, Tobacconist
Prop. William Hutton Smith - later run by brothers Don and Charles Smith. Relocated to No. 7 Kibcaps, The Knares, Lee Chapel South.
Residence |
--
c.1920s
1924 | --
1924
1962
Demolished c.1967 |
Dairy
Hillside | Dairy (A.W. Green - 1951)
Hillside General Stores | Detached bungalow
Residence |
Pre-1939 | Demolished c.1966 |
| Shops, houses & public
buildings between Butlers Grove and Grove Avenue |
| Highfield | Detached bungalow | Residence |
Pre-1939 | Demolished c.1964 |
| Lynton | Detached house | Residence |
Pre-1918 | Demolished c.1974 |
| Springthorpe | Semi-detached house | Paired to Revesby.
Extension added 1978.
Residence |
Pre-1918 | Occupied |
Oaklands renamed Revesby
renamed Oaklands | Semi-detached house | Paired to Springthorpe.
As Oaklands and later Revesby was Laindon Baptist church manse from 1957 to c.1978. Church established a new Manse fund in 1956, Rev. Maurice D. Kendrick first to occupy, Rev. Harry Whyte & family last to occupy.
Renamed Oaklands c.1980s.
Residence |
Pre-1918 | Occupied |
| Fonthill | Detached bungalow | Residence |
c.1956 | Occupied |
| Tahsinia | Detached bungalow | Residence |
c.1957 | Occupied |
| Fleetwood Lodge | Detached house | Residence
Property rebuilt and original name retained. |
Pre-1918 | Occupied |
| Shops, houses & public
buildings between Grove Avenue and Corona Road |
| Clovelly | Semi-detached house | Paired with Corsham.
Residence |
Pre-1918 | Demolished
c.1972 |
| Corsham | Semi-detached house | Paired with Clovelly.
Residence |
Pre-1918 | Demolished
c.1972 |
| Josephine | Semi-detached house | Paired with Fairbournes.
Residence |
Pre-1918 | Demolished
c.1975 |
| Fairbournes | Semi-detached house | Paired with Josephine.
Residence |
Pre-1918 | Demolished
c.1975 |
| Ivydene | Detached bungalow | Residence |
Pre-1918 | Demolished
c.1980 |
| Little Nightingales | Detached house | Residence |
1964 | Occupied |
| Bethan Lodge | Detached house | Residence |
1981 | Occupied |
| Millstone | Detached house | Residence |
c.1983 | Occupied |
| Primrose Lodge | Detached house | Former home of Harry Egerton Bebington, J.P., estate agent and first chairman of Billericay Urban District Council (1934) who lived there from at least the 1930s until approximately 1960.
Residence |
c.1909 | c.1965/66
Demolished |
| Shops, houses & public
buildings between Corona Road and Berry Lane |
| Tudor Cottage | Detached house | Residence |
1923 | Demolished 1970s |
| Shops, houses & public
buildings between Berry Lane and Alexander Road |
| Estate Office | H.E. Bebington
(Harry Egerton Bebington) | Estate Agent
Small single-storey detached building and garage.
Office when vacant fell into disrepair and vandalised. Plot then cleared around 1974 but remained unused and overgrown until the 1990s and is now partially covered by the paved entrance to Longwood Place care home. |
c.1923 | Demolished 1970s |
| St. Aubyns | Detached bungalow | Residence: 1910s - Harry Egerton Bebington
Emily Beatrice Bebington
Plot undeveloped c.1974-1990s now Longwood Place Care Home, 110 High Road. |
Pre-1918 | Demolished 1970s |
| St. David's | Detached bungalow | Residence
Last bungalow to be demolished between Berry Lane and St. Mary's church hall.
Plot undeveloped c.1980-1990s now Longwood Place Care Home, 110 High Road. |
Pre-1918 | Demolished c.1980 |
| Vowler | Detached bungalow | Residence
The Triangle shopping centre (opened in 1976) now occupies this plot. |
Pre-1918 | Demolished pre-/06/1974 |
2 Rose Villas
Wyche Way | Semi-detached house | Residence
Pre 1929 known as 2 Rose Villas.
The Triangle shopping centre (opened in 1976) now occupies this plot. |
Pre-1918 | Demolished pre-/06/1974 |
1 Rose Villas
Rose Villa | Semi-detached house | Residence
Pre 1929 known as 1 Rose Villas.
The Triangle shopping centre (opened in 1976) now occupies this plot. |
Pre-1918 | Demolished pre/06/1974 |
| Triangle Road | A pathway and not a road, as the name suggests, linking the High Road with Berry Lane that later gave its name to the neighbourhood shopping centre opened in the 1970s. It can be seen on early maps of the area and may date from the early 1900s when St. Mary's church hall and Rose Villas were built. All traces of it were lost in the construction of the shopping centre. |
St. Mary's Church Hall
(Opened as St. Mary's Church Institute Mission Hall) | Hall |
1907 | Occupied |
1 Alpha House
2 Alpha House | Semi-detached house | Dentist/Residence |
c.1955 | Occupied |
Auldean
El Tigre | Detached bungalow
Detached bungalow | Auldean demolished pre-/06/1974.
El Tigre built approx. 1979.
Residence |
Pre-1939 | Demolished
Occupied |
Dunromin
renamed Hillrise (c.1955) | Detached bungalow | Residence |
Pre-1939 | Occupied |
Winchmore
Telisima | Detached bungalow
Detached house | Winchmore demolished pre-/06/1974.
Original bungalow matched Hillrise architecturally.
Telisima built approx. 1979.
Residence |
Pre-1929 | Demolished
Occupied |
| Cornerways renamed The Cornerstone | Detached bungalow | Residence
New property erected 2023. |
Pre-1939 | Demolished 2022/2023 |
