A grand 3-storey Edwardian Mansion in Tressillian Road, Brockley, Lewisham
The land which is now the residential area of Upper Brockley came into the possession of the Drake family in the 17th century. Between 1844 and 1885 it was developed as two great estates - the Wickham-Drake Estate and the Tyrwhitt-Drake Estate. The Wickham and Tyrwhitt families had become linked through marriage. Most of the road names in the area mark family associations. A relatively small area in the west, between the Goldsmiths College complex and Wickham Road, consists largely of classical terraces of the 1850s; in this area, St Donatts Road, Shardeloes Road and Malpas Road belonged to the Tyrwhitt-Drake Estate, Upper Brockley Road and Manor Avenue to the Wickham-Drake Estate. Further east is the most dramatic part of Brockley - four long and wide north / south roads with large houses - Wickham Road, the widest, with the largest houses as well as the somewhat idiosyncratic St Peter’s Church, and Breakspears Road, in the Wickham-Drake Estate; then Tressillian Road and the shortest road, Tyrwhitt Road, in the Tyrwhitt-Drake Estate. These roads were laid out by 1851, when the first two houses in Wickham Road were built; but development proceeded slowly, with only seven houses in Wickham Road completed by 1859, when the first houses in Tyrwhitt Road were built. Both roads had developed some way southwards by 1868, when the first houses in Breakspears Road and Tressillian Road were built. From that time development continued steadily until the early 1880s. There are also groups of interesting (though usually more modest) houses in many of the roads running west / east across the estates. Upper Brockley is the ideal place to study the evolution from the Italianate to the Gothic style in the mid to late 19th century.
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Location: Tressillian Road, Brockley, Lewisham
Photo credit: © John Gaffen 2 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: architecture, brockley, grand, historic, house, mansion, period, road, tressillian, upper
