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Streets, squares, mews and lanes. The most charming streetscapes in London. Some well known, some hidden gems.
Michael Searles's crescent of 1794 to 1806: seven pairs of houses joined by colonnades, curving round the south-east corner of the heath.
Terraces
John Cator bought the Wricklemarsh estate in the 1780s, pulled down its Palladian mansion and parcelled the land out to builders, and Michael Searles, who had just finished a Paragon on the New Kent Road and Gloucester Circus in Greenwich, leased this corner in 1794 for the best of the three. Fourteen houses in seven semi-detached blocks stand along a semicircle, linked by six single-storey colonnades of Roman Doric columns, some of them said to have come from the demolished mansion, with a lodge at each end; buyers took a brick shell of basement, three floors and attic and finished the inside as they pleased, and shared nine acres of grounds with fish ponds and a field for their cows. Cator would lease to no schoolmaster or fishmonger. The speculation nearly ruined Searles, the Blitz nearly finished the crescent, and its rebuilding after the war is why it stands complete and protected at the highest historic grade.
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