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A pair of semi-detached mid-Victorian houses built by George Trollope and Sons, who built extensively in the area at this time (including seventeen houses on this road). The ground floors are rusticated stucco while the floors above are of gault brick. There are a number of mature trees in front. Houses and grounds are 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 ) ).