This page provides a list of the old houses in Pembury. It is a work in progress and is not complete – may never be complete.
Its purpose is to document basic parameters such as names, dates, building changes and possibly owners/residents.
Anyone researching or reading about Pembury will come across an assortment of house names with no address nor indication of location. Many contemporary writings just refer to ‘housename‘, Pembury as if that is sufficient.
In many cases the same house will go through a number of name changes based on the whims of the resident or owner.
Sometimes there are two houses with the same name – usually different date & different era.
There may be houses listed here that are outside Pembury but have got included in Pembury listings.
This page hopes to make the understanding of house names a lot easier.
Where there is a detailed description of a house on another part of this web site you will be pointed in that direction (hopefully!).
Be aware of the distinction in listings between Lower Green and Lower Green Road. One is a broad area encompassing Lower Gr Rd, Romford Rd & Henwood Gn Rd – the other just the road. Lower Green is taken directly from a directory listing and does not specify the address. See Ryecroft as an example. Locations below reflect how they are expressed in many published listings.
Directory searches have not gone beyond 1940. By this time house numbers had become quite common.
Some entries have dates to indicate the year of the directory entry. As an example –
_____Acacia Villa was discovered in a 1931 directory and with no recollection of having seen it in an early directory.
| List of Houses in Pembury by old housename. (modern houses excluded) |
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| Acacia Villa 49, 51, 53 Hastings Rd (1931) Almshouse (The) 9-19 Hastings Rd Alpine Cottages, Lower Green Rd (demolished 1929) Arnold Lodge, Lower Green (Detail Entry No16 below) Ashburnham Cottage – Pound Cottage – 2 Lower Green Road ? Ashcroft 38 Lower Green Rd Ashdown Lower Green Rd (1931) Baileys, Baileys Farmhouse or Bayleys 44-46 Henwood Green Road Beech Bank (Beech House?) 54 Hastings Rd. Beverley 117 Hastings Rd. Blackhurst (1878) Bo Peep Cottages (demolished) (4 dwellings) ?? Hastings Rd Somewhere near Bo-Peep corner Bo Peep (Stores, House) 153 Hastings Rd see Retail & Shops/Hastings Rd page Brackenhurst – see Dower House (Detail Entry No7 below) (This is NOT ‘Brackenhurst’ in Lower Gn Rd) Brick Cottage – see Queens Folly (Detail Entry No10 below) Brooksville Burcott Calder Cottage (1898 to 1911) (possibly renamed as Lillescote, Henwood Green Rd in 1912) Calverley Grange (1878) Camden Lodge (1898) Casa Matcoda, Aberdare, The Warren (3 bungalows) ????? Chestnuts (The) Village Green – residential part of wheelright’s shop Demolished. Chalfont 31 & 33 Romford Road when a Boys Home Chapel Cottage, (adjacent to and belonging to Baptis Church) Chapel House Chapel Villas between 57 & 67 Hastings Rd Chippings, 61 Lower Green Road. (Detail Entry No13 below) Church House – see Postillions (Detail Entry No4 below) Colebrook Park (1886) Collingham 85 Hastings Rd Cottage (The) Lower Green 70 Lower Green Road. Curblows – Curbow Villas see Queens Folly (Detail Entry No10 below) Dairy (The) 115 Hastings Rd Darley Dale ?? Hastings Road Possibly between 153 – 125 Hastings Rd. Dingledon 111 Hastings Rd Dunedin (1903) 8 Hastings Road (1907) Opposite Old Wesleyan Church, Hastings Rd. Dumfries (1903) Ebenezer Cottages, Lower Green Rd/Church Rd. Field View 109 Hastings Rd. Forresters (The) Romford Rd. Forresters Arms public house. See Pubs & Beerhouses retail page. Frampton (1916) Gates House (The) 5 Lower Green Road – see Sunnyside. Gimble Grove, Gimble house Glebe House (demolished) Goddens Cottages possibly Lower Green Rd – near the green Greenways (1916) Grelfry Cottages 4,6, 8 Lower Green Road (1939) Greenways 81 Hastings Rd Grovecott or Grove Cottage 53 High Street also known as the Square Deal Cafe (Detail Entry No11 below) Grovehurst Lodge Harcourt House, Harcourt Lodge, York House 1 Hastings Rd Harlon Lower Green Rd (1931) Harriet Cottages 61/63/65 Hastings Rd Harriett Villas 67/69 Hastings Rd. Haven (The) Lower Green Rd. (1931) Hawkwell Place Hawkwell House Hawkwood House (1934) Hayeswood (or Hays Wood) at Three Towns, Romford Rd. Hazeldean Romford Road. (later The Priory) Heatherton – between 32 – 46 High Street. Also known as & The Larches (Detail Entry No9 below) Highfield House 31 Hastings Road. Also known as Waterloo Inn (Detail Entry No5 below) Hillcroft (1916) Hill View 12 – 22 Hastings Rd. Holly Bank, 52 Hastings Rd. Homefield (1938) Lower Green Road. Demolished for new housing now accessed via Henwood Green Rd. Hubbles (Hubbles Farm ?) 30 Hastings Rd. Hygea Cottage (1855) Lower Green Road – near the green Ingleton, Sweeps Hill Close. (Detail Entry No12 below) Inverclyde 83 Hastings Rd Kenilworth, 79 Hastings Road – also one in Amberleaze Drive 1961 Kenmore, Lower Green Rd (1955 location of Dr D. Waterfield’s surgery) Kenwards (Detail Entry No18 below) Knowles Bank Knights Place (Now converted to flats – Lower Green Road) Link to full page Knights Ridge, Lower Green Rd (demolished) Larches – between 32 – 46 High Street. (Detail Entry No9 below) Laurelhurst, (or Laurel Hurst) Lower Gn Laurelhurst 1897 17 Romford Road Little Harcourt ?? Hastings Rd Lillescot, Lillescote 110 Henwood Green Rd, (Detail Entry No15 below) Limes (The) Lower Gn. Lodge (The) 7 Lower Green Road (Detail Entry No3 below) Lodge (The) Church Rd (1982 PVN) Lonsdale 35 Romford Road Manchester House – see Postillions (Detail Entry No4 below) Manor House (The) – 3 Lower Green Rd (Detail Entry No1 below) Manse (The) Maple Hurst (1919) Maplehurst (1927) Marshley harbour (1919) Meadowlands (1927) Meadowside Milliners ????? Hastings Rd ??? Mulbury House, Hastings Rd (1937 – 1948) Mullberry House 1,3 Hastings Road (1939) (now York House) Myrtle Cottage, Henwood Green Road/Romford Road. (Detail Entry No14 below) Oakdene Villas 55, 57 Hastings Rd Oakleigh Oak Lodge, Lower Gn. Now in Henwood Green Roaf, but before Polley Close access from Lower Green Rd. Old Place (The) – see Lillescote 110 Henwood Green Rd, (Detail Entry No15 below) Pembury Cottage between 32 – 46 High Street. (Detail Entry No9 below) Pembury End Pembury Grange , Sandown Park, TW. Ed Gilbert Article Pembury Hall, Old Church Road. Pembury Terrace – Lower Green Road – see notes on Sunnyside – https://pembury.org/history/buildings-landmarks/houses-xx/sunnyside/ Pitts Farm Henwood Green Rd, opposite Baileys Poppingbury 75 Hastings Road. (Detail Entry No6 below) Poplars (The) 35 High St Postillions 2 Hastings Road (Detail Entry No4 below) Pound Cottage 2 Lower Green Rd. (was Ashburnham) Priory (The) see Hazeldean Providence Place ?? Hastings Rd (demolished) (10 dwellings) Somewhere near Bo-Peep corner. Prospect Villa (Lower Green area) Pump House 23 Romford Road Queens Folly Lower Green Rd (was Curblows) (Detail Entry No10 below) Red Cottage (possibly Chapel Cottage) Redwall Villa probably 26-28 Hastings Rd. Ridge (The) Rosemont Rumford House (Revd Woodgate 1878) Ryecroft, Lower Gn. 37 Romford Road Sheen ?? Hastings Road (Detail Entry No17 below) (possibly 123 & 125 Hastings Rd) Skinners Farm – what is now Myrtle Cottage Spring Cottage (1855) Lower Green Road – near the green Spring Grove (1855) Springfield 35 (with 37) Hastings Rd. Stanley Cottage, High St. Stanmore Villa (1879) Stantone (Melville’s 1858 for Bonner & Shaw)) may be a spelling error! Stanton House & Little Stanton (Romford Rd) Stone Court St David’s Romford Rd (1907) St Michaels 121 Hastings Rd Stratford House Sandown Park area – not Pembury. Strathbogie – see Dower House (Detail Entry No7 below) Stone Court (demolished) Sunhill – between 32 – 46 High Street. Also know as Heatherton & The Larches (Detail Entry No9 below) Sunnyside – 5 Lower Green Rd see The Gates House (Detail Entry No2 below) Swiss Cottage 124 Henwood Green Rd. See Pubs & Beerhouses retail page. Tenville (1913) Terrace (The) – see Pembury Terrace Trohork Cottage Thornfield Sandown Park – not Pembury Valeside 41 Romford Road Vermont (Hastings Road – near Belfield Road) Vicarage (The) 4 Hastings Rd. (PVN No 27 1981 Village Organisations) Vicarage (The) Lower Green Rd (1892 OS map) Waltham Villa (1916) Waterloo Cottage 110 Henwood Green Rd, (Detail Entry No15 below) Waterloo Inn – see Highfield House. See Pubs & Beerhouses retail page. Weald View 119 Hastings Rd Willmotts – see Postillions (Detail Entry No4 below) Woodland Terrace 103-113 Hastings Rd or 101-107 Hastings Rd. (109 Hastings Rd was 5 Woodland Terrace) Woodland Villas 91-97 Hastings Rd Woodsgate Woodsgate corner – demolished Woodside Romford Road (as an address it may be indicating Woodside Rd)
Note 1 – Houses Camden Lodge, Jawmadon, Albany Villa, Fairlight House, ?…do Flat, Pembury Garage Flat and Rosemott are between 52 & 30 Hastings Rd on a 1931 property listing. Note 2 – Houses Saythorne, Shirley Dene, Meadow View, Annswell, Shere Cottage, Lincoln are between 153 & 123 Hastings Rd on a 1931 property listing. Note 3 – Houses – Corlacturn, Wrest, Meadowside, are between 97 & 54 Hastings Rd on a 1931 property listing. Note 4 – Houses Casa Matcoda, Aberdare, The Warren (3 bungalows ?) are between 19 & 31 Hastings Rd on a 1931 property listing.
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| The main Lower Green page has a house identification map – Lower Green Page
The references page shows old Pembury Telephone numbers – Reference Page |
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Entry No |
House Details |
| 1 | The Manor House – 3 Lower Green Road. F.E. Burke 1886 (Ky) Mrs Purnell 1903 (Ky) https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1254302 |
| 2 | The Gates House – 5 Lower Green Road. Known as Sunnyside in the 1800s Former distiller, solicitor, translater John Thomas Betts (1809-1894) lived at Sunnyside from 1871-1894 (EG) Mrs Betts (died 1916) 1898, 1903, 1911, 1916 [also 1919!] (Ky). Betts was partner in Peto & Betts – building and railway contractors. (MS)Link to page with greater details – 5 Lower Green Road https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261383 |
| 3 | The Lodge – 7 Lower Green Road. Henry Dittmer 1892 (Ky) Revd RFW Molesworth 1903 (Kellys) A.H. Onffroy 1911 (Ky) Mr Ditmar’s School for Sons of Gentlemen. (MS)https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1254379 |
| 4 | Postillions – 2 Hastings Road also known as Church House, Manchester House, Willmotts. See entry under Buildings and Landmarks. https://pembury.org/history/buildings-landmarks/houses-xx/postillions-church-house-hastings-road/ |
| 5 | Highfield House 31 Hastings Road. Also known as Waterloo Inn – see Pubs & Beerhouses under Shops & Retail. |
| 6 | Poppingbury 75 Hastings Road. Rumoured to be one of the oldest houses in Pembury
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261314 |
| 7 | Dower House Tonbridge Road. Also known as Brackenstone, Strathbogie and various chains of hotels. See entry under Buildings & Landmarks https://pembury.org/history/buildings-landmarks/houses-xx/dower-house-brackenston-strathbogie/ |
| 8 | Wayland House 20 High Street |
| 9 | Sunhill – between 32 – 46 High Street. Also know as Heatherton, Pembury Cottage & The Larches See entry under Buildings & Landmarks https://pembury.org/history/buildings-landmarks/houses-xx/larches-heatherton-sunhill/ |
| 10 | Queens Folly Lower Green Road/Beagles Wood Road. c1626. Also known as Curbelows and Brick Cottage (MS) |
| 11 | Grovecott or Grove Cottage 53 High Street also known as the Square Deal Cafe – see Shops & Retail. Demolished for the development of Sycamore Cottages. |
| 12 | Ingleton, Sweeps Hill Close. House demolished in 1973 to make way for the development of Sweeps Hill Close. (MS) |
| 13 | The Chippings, 61 Lower Green Road. Listed Buildings Historic England |
| 14 | Myrtle Cottage, Henwood Green Road/Romford Road. Once known as Skinners Farm. Home to the Jarvis family – coal, coke & wood merchants. (MS) https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1074939 |
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110 Henwood Green Road, also known as Lillescote / Lilliscote, formerly known as Waterloo Cottages.
1830 – Tythe map, plot 835, owner BAKER Research data and chronology list provided by Jennifer Beviere Jan 2020 |
| 16 | Arnold Lodge – Lower Green – Exact location unknown.
PO Directory 1911 has Mrs Banks at Arnold Lodge with phone No 31. Research data and chronology list provided by Jennifer Beviere, Jane Grooms, Tony Nicholls Sept 2020 |
| 17 | Sheen (not referred to as Sheen House), Hastings Road
Used by GP Dr Dorrit Waterfield and dentist Reginald Warrener as surgeries in the 1930s – 1940s See item 22 on this page for history of dental surgery in Hastings Rd. |
| 18 | Kenwards – farm at the very north of Pembury in Dislingbury Rd / Half Moon Rd.
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1254303 |
| The main Lower Green page has a house identification map – Lower Green Page |
Credits for contributions Ed Gilbert, Kathryn Franklin, Jeni Beviere, Jane Grooms, Tony Nicholls
Page compiled by Tony Nicholls
If you have fresh information or need to contact a contributor to this page please contact me by email –
Tony Nicholls pemburyhistory@gmail.com or history@pembury.org and label the subject Pembury Houses.