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St John's Grove, Beeston

St John's Grove, Beeston is a conservation area in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. 52°55′37″N 1°13′10″W / 52.926854°N 1.219447°W / 52.926854; -1.219447

History

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4 Glebe Street, built 1878

Following the enclosure of the land surrounding Beeston in 1809 the area of St John's Grove was allotted to the vicar of the parish church. In 1878 the land was acquired from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners by the Beeston Land Society, a group of citizens, who divided the land out into 28 plots of between three-quarters and 1-acre (0.40 ha) and set out the wide straight streets.

The estate of 21-acre (8.5 ha) was laid out with main avenues 48 feet (15 m) wide with intersecting streets 36 feet (11 m) wide and planted with trees.[1]

The first properties erected were Glebe Villas, at 2 and 4 Glebe Street. No 2 was demolished after the Second World War to widen the road as a bus route.

The majority of the houses are of Edwardian and late Victorian origin. The Land Society set conditions for the developers including no public houses, and strict building lines which ensured that properties were set back a consistent distance from the road. In 1994, the St John's Grove Estate became a conservation area.[2]

Architecture

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The following table lists the significant properties within the St John’s Grove estate.

Name Street and number Photograph Date Architect Notes and refs.
2 Cavendish Place 1879 Semi with No 4.
3 Cavendish Place
4 Cavendish Place   1879 Semi with No 2.
5 Cavendish Place   2018
7 Cavendish Place between 1901 and 1910 Semi with No 9.
9 Cavendish Place between 1901 and 1910 Semi with No 7.
1 Devonshire Avenue 1908[3]
2 Devonshire Avenue   1929[4]
3 Devonshire Avenue From 1978 a Dental Surgery
4 Devonshire Avenue 1913 Douglas Leonard Booth[5]
5 Devonshire Avenue 1928[6]
6 Devonshire Avenue
7 Devonshire Avenue 1928[6]
8 Devonshire Avenue 1886
Clifton Lodge 9 Devonshire Avenue 1910 Joseph Warburton[7]
Cavendish Lodge 10 Devonshire Avenue   ca. 1890
Chetwynd House 11 Devonshire Avenue 1923 Arnold Plackett[8]
12 Devonshire Avenue 1900s Arnold Plackett[9] Demolished for Council Car Park
13 Devonshire Avenue   1925 Arnold Plackett[10]
Collingwood 14 Devonshire Avenue   1895 G. Radford[11]
15 Devonshire Avenue 1923 George Francis Grimwood[12]
Birklands 16 Devonshire Avenue   between 1885 and 1901
Hollydene 17 Devonshire Avenue   1896 Thomas Woolston[13]
Devonshire House 18 Devonshire Avenue   1910[14]
Ivy Bank 19 Devonshire Avenue 1896 Thomas Woolston[13]
Kingswood 20 Devonshire Avenue   1902[15] Initially Kingswood School[16]
Hesleden 21 Devonshire Avenue 1910 Joseph Warburton[17] Named after the village of Hesleden, Durham, the birthplace of its first owner, James Storey Ebblewhite
Woodview 22 Devonshire Avenue   1902[15]
23 Devonshire Avenue 1930s?
Inglewood 24 Devonshire Avenue 1900 Brough Bros[18]
Bloxham 26 Devonshire Avenue 1900 Brough Bros[18]
1 Elm Avenue 1920s
Endcliffe 2 Elm Avenue 1903
3 Elm Avenue 1920s
4 Elm Avenue 1901-10
5 Elm Avenue 1920s
6 Elm Avenue 1901-10
7 Elm Avenue 1920s
8 Elm Avenue 1925 H.R. Hofton[19]
Devon Lodge 9 Elm Avenue 1910[20]
10 Elm Avenue 1925 H.R. Hofton[21]
Baltic House 11 Elm Avenue between 1885 and 1901
12 Elm Avenue 1922 Evans, Clark and Woollatt[22]
Fairfield 13 Elm Avenue between 1885 and 1901
Inglenook 14 Elm Avenue ca. 1908
14a Elm Avenue   ca. 1965
Inglewood 15 Elm Avenue between 1885 and 1901
The Uplands 16 Elm Avenue 1894 John Bowley[23] Semi detached with no. 18
Elmwood 17 Elm Avenue   1897[24]
The Uplands 18 Elm Avenue 1894 John Bowley[23] Semi detached with no. 16
Avondale 19 Elm Avenue 1900[25] William Vallance Betts[26]
The Cottage 20 Elm Avenue   1925 H.R. Hofton[22]
Blenheim 21 Elm Avenue 1903[27] William Vallance Betts Formerly a Nursery School
Elm House 22 Elm Avenue Nursing Home
Thornbury 23 Elm Avenue 1903 Field Weston[28]
25 Elm Avenue between 1914 and 1938
Staintondale 27 Elm Avenue between 1914 and 1938
Wroxham 29 Elm Avenue[29] between 1901 and 1908
Tamoana 31 Elm Avenue 1909[30] Joseph Warburton[31] Formerly The Brackley House Hotel
Elm Lee 33 Elm Avenue 2010[32]
35 Elm Avenue between 1901 and 1914
37 Elm Avenue between 1901 and 1914
1 Glebe Street 1900 B Collington[33]
2a Glebe Street 1906 C.E. Barnes[34]
Glebe Villas 2 Glebe Street 1878-79 Ernest Reginald Ridgway[35] Semi with No 4. (Demolished ca. 1960)
3 Glebe Street 1900 B Collington[33]
Glebe Villas 4 Glebe Street   1878-79[36] Ernest Reginald Ridgway[35] Semi with No.2.
6 Glebe Street 1960s
6a Glebe Street   1960s
7 Glebe Street 1940s-50s
Rostrevor 8 Glebe Street   1903 William Vallance Betts
Thoresby 9 Glebe Street 1922 G.W. Brough[37]
Lindenhurst 10 Glebe Street   between 1901 and 1910
Surrey Cottage 12 Glebe Street 1902 John Rigby Poyser[38] Surrey Cottage was built for Edward Farrow, later General Manager of the Raleigh Bicycle Company.[39]
Suffolk Lodge 14 Glebe Street   1902 John Rigby Poyser[38]
1 Newcastle Avenue 1939 C. Brailsford[40]
2 Newcastle Avenue 2011-12
Gladstone Lodge 3 Newcastle Avenue between 1885 and 1901
4 Newcastle Avenue between 1901 and 1910
6 Newcastle Avenue between 1901 and 1910
Charnwood 8 Newcastle Avenue 1910[41] William Vallance Betts[42]
1 Vicarage Street
2 Vicarage Street
4 Vicarage Street
6 Vicarage Street
Oban House 8 Chilwell Road c.1890 Possibly James Huckerby or Francis ('Frank') Wilkinson – or both. Oban House was built for Frank Wilkinson, owner of Anglo Scotian Mills. Home to (Mechanical Engineer) Reuben Reader of E. Reader & Sons, and Dr Winifred Alice Milland Thompson – Beeston's first female GP.[43][44]

References

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  2. ^ St John's Conservation Area description – Broxtowe Borough Council Archived 18 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
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  41. ^ 1910 (Date stone on house). 8 Newcastle Avenue, Beeston, Nottingham. 1910.{{cite sign}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
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