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The original building was built in 1776 by politician David Hartley (the Younger) 1732–1813 who received a grant of £2500 to build an experimental fireproof house. [2] [3] A Grade II listed obelisk nearby on Putney Heath commemorates this innovation.
The Theophilus Crawford House is a historic house at 53 Hickory Ridge Road South in Putney, Vermont. Built about 1808, it is one of the oldest brick houses in Putney, and one of its finest examples of Federal architecture in brick. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. [1]
In 1919, London County Council proposed an estate of about 1200 houses on the Putney House, and Dover House parkland, to fulfil a policy designed to relieve the pressure for 'Homes fit for heroes'. The Housing Act of 1919 incorporated generous subsidies for local authorities to build affordable housing for rent. The estate was meticulously ...
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Putney Heath, near the Telegraph pub, was also the venue for the September 1809 duel between Cabinet ministers George Canning and Lord Castlereagh. [26] Scio House was the last villa on Portsmouth Road abutting the heath: it eventually became a hospital and was known as Scio House Hospital for Officers, Putney. [27]
The house was commissioned by the Miles family and passed from Alfred Webb Miles, a pioneer of ready-made clothing, in 1903 [7] to his daughters Emma Jessie Blanche and Elma Grace Miles, who lived in the house until Grace's death in 1956, and who also donated land elsewhere in Putney for the building of St Mary's Hall (now Hotham Hall) to St Mary's Church. [8]
Rev. Roger (Mortlock) Pettiward (1712–1780) - Elizabeth Pettiward's son, of Fairfax House, Putney, in 1749 succeeded to the estates of his uncle Walter Pettiward (d.1749), under which terms, in 1750 he obtained a private act of Parliament, Mortlock's Name Act 1749 (23 Geo. 2. c.