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 The Garden Flat, Surbiton

ACQUIRED: 2009
STRATEGY: VALUE CREATION THROUGH DESIGN
STATUS: SOLD
The renovation of a Garden Flat within an existing Victorian conversion, situated within the Claremont Road Conservation area of The Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames.

After the arrival of the South Western Railway, Thomas Pooley – a Cornishman and local Malthouse owner, conceived the idea of building a new town next to the railway in Surbiton.
He drew up initial plans, commissioned architects and builders and laid out the first phase of development between 1838 and 1842.

Subsequent phases were continued after 1842 by the bankers Coutts and Company who commissioned architect Philip Hardwick and Cubitts the builders to create a fashionable middle class residential suburb of modest yet elegant stuccoed semi-detached villas and terraces in the Regency style.