The Manor House Pub
The Original Manor House pub, looking north towards Harringay, c.1860The pub is the source of both the name of the tube station and the area. The first pub on the site was built by Thomas Widdows c. 1810 as a roadside tavern next to the turnpike on Green Lanes. The pub was within sight of the Hornsey Wood
Tavern, which had been formed out of the old Copt Hall, the manor house of the Manor of Brownswood. It is likely its name was taken from this connection. Later in the century a tablet was placed on the pub with the following inscription:
“ QVEENE VICTORIA HALTED HERE
YE 25TH Oct A.D.
1843 ”
However, nothing more is known of the incident. Towards the end of the century the building was remodelled and modernised. In 1930 the old tavern was demolished and the current building erected. Behind the new building, offices were built for London Transport. Although the latter building still exists, TfL no longer occupies it.
In later years the pub was the first employer of Richard Desmond, now the owner of the Daily Express and Daily Star. The building also housed a nightclub that was popular among Goths in the mid-1980s. The ground floor of the building is now occupied by a branch of Costcutter.
Early developmentAfter the construction of the pub early in the 19th century, building continued on Green Lanes with the appearance in 1821 of a large house at the junction with Woodberry Down. Further north on Green Lanes, Northumberland House, a three-storeyed building with a pillared entrance, balustrade, and urns on its roof, had been built by 1824 just to the south of the New River.
very bad council work in woodberry down has resulted in the destruction of perfectly good flats destroyed for a new development of yuppie style neo lib dwellings, their failure to control the drugs scene of the estate due to them putting in a myriad of wrong tenants shows they have zero regard for green ideas and decent working class people
It was used as a private mental hospital until it was demolished in 1955; one of its most famous patients was Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, first wife of the American poet T.S. Eliot, She lived at the hospital from 1938 until her death in 1947
A thatched cottage, with Gothic windows, was constructed on the boundary with the borough of Tottenham by 1825. Woodberry Down Cottages, four detached houses on the south side of Woodberry Down, had been built by 1829. With the development of Finsbury Park almost a certainty, the land to the south and east of the present-day park was acquired by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners as ideal for building. The park was laid out between 1857 and 1869 and the adjacent land was sold to builders.
During the 1860s, Thomas John Angell, who appears to have been a speculator rather than a builder built Finsbury Park Villas. This was a terrace of at least twelve houses, which, starting with the Finsbury Park Tavern, ran northward along Green Lanes from its junction with the new Woodberry Grove.
At around the same time building spread eastward along the north side of Seven Sisters Road, built by Angell and a London builder Thomas Oldis. From 1868 to 1870 large detached houses with gardens running down to the New River were built at the east end of Seven Sisters Road. In 1867 3 acres (12,000 m2) were leased on the southern side of the eastern end of the road, for the building of four detached or nine 'substantial' houses; three detached houses were built by 1871.
An architect, William Reddall of Finsbury, was one of those who leased the houses
Woodberry Down was laid out in 1868, when it was extended eastward from Lordship Road, and villas were built on the south side in the late 1860s. The area was the northern section of a district called Brownswood Park (named after Brownswood Manor) and was regarded as a particularly select suburb
However, with the increasing suburbanisation of the area, mainly for the middle and lower middle classes, many of the original families had moved out by 1895 and others were being replaced by poorer people in 1913. Social decline continued, until in 1954 the district was inhabited mainly by students, foreigners, and the working class, with most houses containing four or five families and all in decay
Twentieth Century redevelopment
Manor House tube station entrance on the western side of Green Lanes, north of Seven Sisters' RoadFrom 1949 through to the 1970s much of the area was redeveloped, the old houses being demolished and replaced with large council developments. One such development was Woodberry Down, a large council estate built shortly after the Second World War by the LCC to alleviate chronic housing shortages. The estate is currently subject to a phased redevelopment that will see modern flats built on the site.Manor House
The Original Manor House pub, looking north towards Harringay, c.1860The pub is the source of both the name of the tube station and the area. The first pub on the site was built by Thomas Widdows c. 1810 as a roadside tavern next to the turnpike on Green Lanes. The pub was within sight of the Hornsey Wood
“ QVEENE VICTORIA HALTED HERE
YE 25TH Oct A.D.
1843 ”
However, nothing more is known of the incident. Towards the end of the century the building was remodelled and modernised. In 1930 the old tavern was demolished and the current building erected. Behind the new building, offices were built for London Transport. Although the latter building still exists, TfL no longer occupies it.
In later years the pub was the first employer of Richard Desmond, now the owner of the Daily Express and Daily Star. The building also housed a nightclub that was popular among Goths in the mid-1980s. The ground floor of the building is now occupied by a branch of Costcutter.
Early developmentAfter the construction of the pub early in the 19th century, building continued on Green Lanes with the appearance in 1821 of a large house at the junction with Woodberry Down. Further north on Green Lanes, Northumberland House, a three-storeyed building with a pillared entrance, balustrade, and urns on its roof, had been built by 1824 just to the south of the New River.
very bad council work in woodberry down has resulted in the destruction of perfectly good flats destroyed for a new development of yuppie style neo lib dwellings, their failure to control the drugs scene of the estate due to them putting in a myriad of wrong tenants shows they have zero regard for green ideas and decent working class people
It was used as a private mental hospital until it was demolished in 1955; one of its most famous patients was Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, first wife of the American poet T.S. Eliot, She lived at the hospital from 1938 until her death in 1947
A thatched cottage, with Gothic windows, was constructed on the boundary with the borough of Tottenham by 1825. Woodberry Down Cottages, four detached houses on the south side of Woodberry Down, had been built by 1829. With the development of Finsbury Park almost a certainty, the land to the south and east of the present-day park was acquired by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners as ideal for building. The park was laid out between 1857 and 1869 and the adjacent land was sold to builders.
During the 1860s, Thomas John Angell, who appears to have been a speculator rather than a builder built Finsbury Park Villas. This was a terrace of at least twelve houses, which, starting with the Finsbury Park Tavern, ran northward along Green Lanes from its junction with the new Woodberry Grove.
At around the same time building spread eastward along the north side of Seven Sisters Road, built by Angell and a London builder Thomas Oldis. From 1868 to 1870 large detached houses with gardens running down to the New River were built at the east end of Seven Sisters Road. In 1867 3 acres (12,000 m2) were leased on the southern side of the eastern end of the road, for the building of four detached or nine 'substantial' houses; three detached houses were built by 1871.
An architect, William Reddall of Finsbury, was one of those who leased the houses
Woodberry Down was laid out in 1868, when it was extended eastward from Lordship Road, and villas were built on the south side in the late 1860s. The area was the northern section of a district called Brownswood Park (named after Brownswood Manor) and was regarded as a particularly select suburb
However, with the increasing suburbanisation of the area, mainly for the middle and lower middle classes, many of the original families had moved out by 1895 and others were being replaced by poorer people in 1913. Social decline continued, until in 1954 the district was inhabited mainly by students, foreigners, and the working class, with most houses containing four or five families and all in decay
Twentieth Century redevelopment
Manor House tube station entrance on the western side of Green Lanes, north of Seven Sisters' RoadFrom 1949 through to the 1970s much of the area was redeveloped, the old houses being demolished and replaced with large council developments. One such development was Woodberry Down, a large council estate built shortly after the Second World War by the LCC to alleviate chronic housing shortages. The estate is currently subject to a phased redevelopment that will see modern flats built on the site.Manor House
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