Blakeden Drive

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2024 Planning Applications

№ 7

ADDRESS: 7 Blakeden Drive APPLICATION NUMBER: 2024/1523 PROPOSAL: Variation of Conditions: 2 (Approved Plans) 3 (Materials) of planning permission 2023/3296 (Single-storey rear extensions, front porch, rooflights, conversion of garage into living space and alterations to fenestration following partial demolition of existing house) to change external materials and change windows from white to olive grey. CPC VERDICT: Nothing on website. We were a consultee. EBC VERDICT: Grant Planning Permission 3 x standard conditions

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Historical Notes

In 1539 Henry VIII granted a 30-year lease of the manor at a reserved rent of £6 to Cuthbert Blakeden, spelt in those days Blackdenne, who was Henry's Serjeant of the Confectionary. Other records suggest that in 1518 part of the Manor of Claygate may have been granted by Henry to Sir Thomas Henneage who was counsel to the Prior of Merton and Gentlemen Usher to Cardinal Wolsey. Henneage acquired the Manor of East Moulsey (Molesey) and certain lands and titles in Thames Ditton in that year, part of which he assigned later to Richard Willyford.

Blakeden married Juliana Polsted, and when he died in 1540, the lease of Claygate was reassigned to his widow. Around that time, Juliana married John Boothe, Gentleman Usher to Henry VIII, and later to his son, King Edward VI (1537-1553). Juliana had four daughters and two sons by Boothe. Memorabilia to Juliana, who died in 1586, and her two husbands can be found on the north wall of the north chapel of St. Nicholas Church, Thames Ditton.

The Hare and Hounds

The earliest surviving deed of the Hare and Hounds is dated 1843, when it was already a public house and owned by John Ward with Thomas Weller as tenant. Before then it was a farmhouse. Weller also rented or owned the greater part of the land that is now bounded by Church Road, St Leonards Road, Common Road and The Causeway. On parts of this land he paid rent to the Curate and to the Earl of Lovelace. But Weller did not own or rent the strip of land which fronts Common Road on which The Griffin, Ash Cottages and Mathews Terrace were built, nor the triangular-shaped piece of land between 'The Hare and Hounds' and the shops called Claygate Hurst, now known as The Green.

In June 1866, the Hare and Hounds was auctioned by Messrs Norton, Trist and Co at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street. The lot comprised the Hare and Hounds public house which consisted of a bar, parlour, tap room, kitchen, cellar, sitting-room, three bedrooms and two attics, together with stables for six horses, a coachhouse, barn, skittle alley, sheds and a yard. Included with this lot were an orchard fronting Church Road, arable land of over six acres fronting St Leonards Road (known variously as Capel or Chapel field), and Claygate Hurst. In all, some eight acres and eighteen perches were on sale, and were purchased by RW Burrows on behalf of the Twickenham Brewery.

In 1896 the pub was purchased by Brandons Putney Brewery who sold it to Mann, Crossman and Paulin in 1950. Around 1900 the orchard on which Farley, (now Brynhyfryd), Appledore, Scoreby (now Dunelm) and Half Acre were built, and the land fronting St Leonards Road, were sold off separately by Brandons for building purposes.

In 1931, the Hare and Hounds was extensively altered to become much in line with its present exterior appearance, although the facade was subsequently simplified by the removal of some glass-covered porchways. And in the early 1970s the interior was modified and refurbished. In 1969, Mann, Crossman and Paulin became Watney Mann, which in turn subsequently became part of the Grand Metropolitan plc who are the present owners.

From time to time references are made to the Hare and Hounds as being an hotel, implying that in the past it provided overnight accommodation for travellers. It is also most likely that this public house, or hotel, took its name from the hunt that used to meet regularly for beagling — the pursuit of hares on foot with beagle hounds — at nearby Fee Farm. 'Capel Field' adjoining the Hare and Hounds was once the venue of the Leveret Cricket Club, before it became Elm Nurseries, and then in the late 1960s Elm Gardens and Blakeden Drive.

Further Information

• Blakeden Drive in previous years