Houses, Grove Park and The Avenue, Wanstead Grove, Essex

HOUSES AT SNARESBROOK- These houses are now being erected on the Grove Estate, near Snaresbrook station, Essex. Each plot has an average frontage of 60 feet, with sufficient depth for tennis-lawn and garden in rear of house, whilst the roads are wide, and are to be planted with trees at the edge of the footpath. The accommodation consists of four bedrooms on the first-floor, with bath-room and WC, etc., over which is an attic bedroom, and a large room in roof, about 38 ft. by 18 ft. and 10 ft. high, suitable for a billiard-room, and with lights arranged to suit the table; or, in a family, where such a room is necessary, it would make a play-room for children. The materials used are: for the roofs, brown Broseley tiles, the gables being hung with bright red tiles; the exterior of the first floor is rough-cast and half-timbered, with the ornament shown modelled in cement; the facing bricks of the lower part are red Suffolks. The houses are being carried out from the plans and under the superintendence of Messrs. Potts, Sulman, & Hennings, architects, who are also laying out the estate. {Builder 14 September 1889 page 192 and illustration]

Wanstead Grove Conservation Area The Grove Estate was sold at auction in 1889 and the large country house was subsequently demolished. The house stood on the junction between Grove Park and The Avenue. The Grove estate was gradually developed after 1889, starting with houses in Grove Park and the Avenue. Pevsner notes the comfortably large houses by Potts, Sulman and Hennings.