Where Am I? No. 12a - Part Two of "Cazza's House"

[Rosinish]

I may be talking out of my backside 

 
And maybe I am too but from day one I have always thought picture 12a 2 to be a signal box............

Whether connected to the building is another 

Annie

[Spidermonkey]

A bit of an aside, but there is an interesting blog here by an amateur architectural historian. http://thecountryseat.org.uk/

By the same author, there is a website dedicated to lost country houses with a full list here (if anyone has a spare day or two  ) http://www.lostheritage.org.uk/lh_complete_list.html

[Yorkslass]

Hi all,

I've spent days and days looking through old newspaper adverts for houses.

Some of them have pictures, some just descriptions, but I thought this one matched Cazza's house quite well - Walmer, Kent.

It was dated 1929.

I managed to find out the house was originally called "St Mildred's" but try as I might, I can't find a picture of it.
This site mentions the house - http://www.walmerweb.co.uk/history/walmer-walk-circa1890.html

I've looked at the "Britain from Above" site for Walmer, but can't get enough detail.

Also found a good OS map, but when overlaying, it looks like the house has long gone .....
I can see where I think the house is, the steps down to the lawn, but the shape of it is all wrong.

I'm NOT saying it is the house - and without a photo it seems hopeless. 
Unless anyone can find what I couldn't  .....

Yorkslass

[arthurk]

I couldn't find a picture of St Mildred's Walmer either, but while looking I wondered if it might be a small prep school or similar. Take a look at these:
http://www.yateleymanor.com/Prospective-Families/News-and-Events/Photo-Gallery/Photo-Gallery.aspx - photo no. 13 in the gallery
http://www.holmegrange.org/our-school/

I don't think either of them is right, but if nothing else, do they suggest the search area should be extended? (For those who haven't followed the links, the buildings have some similarities to Cazza's house, but are in Yateley and Wokingham - NE Hampshire and Berkshire.)

Arthur

[Spidermonkey]

Yorkslass - not sure whether you are thinking it is the same house as I am  following the walmerweb discription, I've got the house between St Marys Road and Castle Road, the east elevation running N-S?

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/sidebyside.cfm#zoom=17&lat=51.2028&lon=1.3947&layers=176&right=BingHyb

[Yorkslass]

I think so Spidermonkey.

The "overlay" map at the bottom of the page here shows new houses,  but called St Mildred's Court.

As I said, the house on the 1898 OS map doesn't have the same outline as I would expect.
Though I guess it could have changed in 20-30 years.
I was encouraged by the number of conifer type trees around the area too.

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=51.2022&lon=1.3955&layers=176

Looking at the Google Street View at the back of the new St Mildred's Court, there are a couple of windblown looking conifers behind ...

But as I say, it's only a possible 

Yorkslass

[DavidG02]

By the same author, there is a website dedicated to lost country houses with a full list here (if anyone has a spare day or two  ) http://www.lostheritage.org.uk/lh_complete_list.html

Spent many a moment trawling through this one. Great site but it can leave you heartbroken to read why they were demolished. Fires etc you can accept , but most of the reasons given are due to '' disrepair due to lack of funds' etc. 1 or 2 were removed to make way for bigger( or smaller) and so much was lost.

[Spidermonkey]

I know - there was a lovely country house that was demolished to make way for an office block.........

[DavidG02]

Using St Mildreds as a possibility a search of Walmers web page shows an old citizen describing Walmer. In it she mentions Leelands school moving various times , once to St Mildreds ( a big red building with a tower - at the back of St Marys Church

Here are some pics of Leelands and other places ( if I had the time I would look for the book these pics came out of)

http://www.walmerweb.co.uk/history/history-upperwalmer-1920s-1930s.html



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