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Cresswell Place

Cresswell Place is a wide open mews running north of Priory Walk up to Cresswell Gardens.

It is a most attractive mews mainly cobbled with houses in varying styles and colours.

Some are partly tiled at the front. Some of the houses are painted in bright colours and the mews is about twice as wide as a normal mews giving it a great feeling of light and space.

Agatha Christie lived at No. 22.

Cresswell Gardens was called Bolton Mews until 1908. The Cresswell name came from Cresswell Lodge, a local country house when the area was farming land.

Quite a lot of what we see now is modern. Nos. 18-22 were built in 1885 by W. Knight, builder to designs by the architect Phelps Drew. But Nos. 6 and 6A were built in 1963 (Bruce Henderson-Gray, architect); 7, 7A and 7B in 1969 (M Howard-Radley, architect) and No. 25 in 1970 (Douglas Norwood and Associates, architects).

 

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