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Stanley Crescent

This road was named after Lord Stanley, a prominent member of the House of Lords when the Ladbroke Estate was being developed.

Unlike Lansdowne Crescent, where houses were built on both sides of the road, houses in Stanley Crescent were only built on the west side (with their backs facing the gardens of the Crescent).

Charles Blake owned the land and he granted leases for the construction of Nos. 1-13 to David Ramsay in 1853. The houses were designed by Thomas Allom. Ramsay went bankrupt in 1854 but his houses were completed by Philip Rainey, who was Blake’s clerk of works.

In 1862-3, when the land itself had passed to H and W Gardner, who were brewers, they granted leases of the remaining plots to the north, Nos. 14-23, to William Wheeler, who also used Allom’s designs.

 

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