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A distinctive house of c1870. The main features are the crowstepped gable on the right and the decorative arched canopy above the front door. Also some Tudor windows with mullions and transoms, and a castellated parapet above the bay window. It is within the Leigham Court Road (North) Conservation Area.
Leigham Court Road was laid out in 1839, and while development began in the early 1840s, it didn’t really take off until after the building of the Crystal Palace and West End Railway and the opening of Streatham Hill station in 1856. Quite a number of the original, large Victorian houses survive at either end of the road, and even though their grounds have in some cases since been built on, the remaining mature trees and general landscaping have enabled the area to retain “much of its original arcadian character.” Information from Lambeth Council (Link (Archive Link ) ).