St Leonards Road
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№ 2
- 2 St Leonards Road — 2020/1472 — PROPOSAL: Tree Preservation Order EL:90/19 - Crown reduce 1 x Sycamore by 2m. — COUNCIL RESPONSE: No Comment (PARISH COUNCIL PLANNING MEETING 16-JUL-20)
№ 6
- 6 St Leonards Road KT10 0EL — 2020/3549 — PROPOSAL: Alterations to fenestration, rear roof lights and internal alterations. — COUNCIL RESPONSE: No objection, no comment (PARISH COUNCIL PLANNING MEETING 28-JAN-21)
- 6 St Leonards Road KT10 0EL — 2020/2528 — PROPOSAL: Tree Preservation Order EL: 90/19 - Crown reduce and spread of 1 x English Oak by up to 2metres and fell 1 x Cherry. — COUNCIL RESPONSE: No comment with comments. Observation: Both trees are very important to the street scene. If the cherry is to be granted permission to be felled, please can a suitable replacement be planted. (PARISH COUNCIL PLANNING MEETING 5-NOV-20)
№ 23
ADDRESS: 23 St Leonards Road
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№ 30
- 30 St Leonards Road KT10 0EL — 2020/2033 — PROPOSAL: Single-storey rear extension, rear elevation to render, side garage and alterations to fenestration following demolition of existing conservatory. — COUNCIL RESPONSE: No Comment. (PARISH COUNCIL PLANNING MEETING 8-OCT-20)
№ 39
AP41 Clerk to notify Compliance Department at EBC of a breach of application to 2019/1654 39 St Leonards Road the window colour has been changed. DONE. Covered under Item 14. (PARISH COUNCIL PLANNING MEETING 13-AUG-20)
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The area
- i) Highway Garden Sites inspections (including reports from Councillors)
- Sites were confirmed to be in good order with the exception of some pruning being required to the St Leonards Road bed, some brambles need to be cleared along The Firs opposite The Foley pub and a tree overreaching on Glebelands.
| AP79 Cllr Marques to send the Clerk a picture of the Glebelands tree so she can decide how best to resolve. |
| AP80 CS to review Applegarth (bed opposite the houses) and Glenavon Close (junction with Common Road). (PARISH COUNCIL H&TE MEETING 29-OCT-20) |
Historical Notes
Housing built from 1885 to the outbreak of World War I was located mainly along the northern ends of Vale Road and Coverts Road, along parts of Red Lane, Common Road, in particular the brickfield workers' cottages near 'The Griffin', and towards the southern end of Oaken Lane. Half a dozen houses were also built on the south side of the western end of Red Lane which was then renamed St Leonards Road (not St. Leonard's Road, as is sometimes incorrectly stated) after Lord St Leonards; he became Lord High Chancellor of England in 1852 and lived at Boyle Farm, Thames Ditton.
Rose Cottage, 12 St Leonards Road
Rose Cottage is one of the oldest houses in Claygate. It was built around 1695, as a gamekeeper's cottage (or cottages, as it is thought there were originally two), on the Couchmore Estate. Notable is the Royal Exchange fire mark on the front brickwork.
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.
Walter Arthur
No account of commerce in Claygate would be complete without mention of Walter Arthur of 43 St Leonards Road. He started his business in 1883 in Mathews Terrace, Common Road, and advertised himself in the 1950s as a builder, decorator, upholsterer, undertaker, plumber, gasfitter, heating and electrical engineer, sign and glass writer, and erector of headstones and memorials. Walter died in 1965 at the age of 101. He had three sisters, one of whom was no less skilled, but in a different way. She conducted from the same premises an entertainments business embracing children's and adults' parties, birthday and wedding celebrations, as well as a fancy dress costume hiring service.
Walter Arthur also owned and built Lantern Hall in Common Road in the 1930s. This hall was used for a variety of community activities until World War II when it was leased from the Arthurs by Naafi. From 1953 to 1954 the Village Hall Association took over the remainder of Naafi's lease. Consideration was then given to purchasing the hall for the village, but other views prevailed and the decision was taken to build a purpose-built village hall in Church Road. In 1965 Lantern Hall was purchased by Surrey County Council and used as a depot for its county library services which were headquartered at Esher until these were transferred to Dorking in 1981. It was then used as a warehouse by Allied Packaging of Thames Ditton.
Sources
- Claygate Heritage Trail, (leaflet produced by Claygate Parish Council)
- Peebles, Malcolm (1983). The Claygate Book. (Millennium edition). Stockbridge: by BAS Printers Ltd. ISBN 0-9508978-0-9.
- Many thanks also for the photos, many supplied by Terry Gale, from the Claygate Local History Facebook group.
