The Department of Transport’s designation of the trunk road from London to the Kent coast, usually called the Dover Road. With the A5 to North Wales, it follows the route and in part the precise alignment of the Roman Watling Street. Throughout London each stretch of road bears its own name and within the Ashburnham Triangle this is Blackheath Road.

This is the Department of Transport route number for the road between Greenwich and Lewisham. The Greenwich end, and part of the Ashburnham Triangle, is Greenwich South Street, and the remainder is Lewisham Road.

In 1996 planning application was made by Buxton Homes for a residential development on the site of the Texcel factory in the angle between Guildford Grove and Greenwich South Street, with access from the former. 12 Guildford Grove, by then only a garage, was demolished to give better access, and 11 houses were built in 1998/99. The houses, nos. 1-5, backing onto the rear of houses in Greenwich South Street, occupied the side of the two cottages which formed Laurel Gardens (q.v.). These were derelict from the mid 1930s. It is often said that larger site was only given temporary planning permission for light industrial use in the early 1950s, but the site had been in industrial use from before the First World War – the 1915 electoral register (qualifying date July 1914) recorded a William Jones of 152 Lewisham Road as freehold owner of the 'Factory, rear of 62 Guildford Road'.

A subsidiary name for stretch of South Street on the West immediately North of Green Lane (now Royal Hill) built by W. Neil in 1820 according to a plaque at the modern Arlington Place. Name abolished 24/4/1870; corresponds with the modern 71–85 Greenwich South Street (odd numbers) though the original renumbering was 10 lower (i.e. 61-75). The name appears to have dropped out of use at this time of renumbering though 61 (now 71) was called Arlington Cottage; no 67 (now 77) was called Morden Cottage.

Built in 1850 as an integral part of the development of Ashburnham Grove and recorded in Mason’s Directory for 1852. It is situated half way down the North side of the street at the junction with Ashburnham Retreat (which was presumably built to facilitate rear access to the pub ) and has served as the ‘local’ for the Northern part of the Triangle for more than 140 years.

Formerly 72 - 80 Ashburnham Grove (q.v.). Rebuilt by the Borough after WW2 destruction as Ashburnham Hostel. Renamed Triangle Hostel (q.v.) as a mark of appreciation for the support of members of the Ashburnham Triangle Association.

Link road between Ashburnham Grove and Ashburnham Place, laid out at the same time as the former (ca. 1850). There has never been any houses fronting the street and it was not even named until 1961. It provides access to the rear of the Ashburnham Arms pub. In the street maps in the Kelly’s Blackheath directories for 1924 to 1938 (when they ceased publication), the street is named Langdale Road in addition to the real Langdale Road but this is an error and the directories themselves ‘name’ the street as ‘road leading to Ashburnham Road’ or as a turning off Ashburnham Grove and vice versa. A map of 1925 untraced by me is alleged to name the road as LINOLE ROAD; this also must be an error. Apart from the predominant evidence of all the sources that the road lacked a name for much of its existence, the conclusive proof is provided by the GLC’s 1965 supplement to the LCC’s List of streets and places which indicates that it was originally named (not a change of name) on .

Subsidiary name in South Street covering the West side either side of Ashburnham Grove; Nos.1-9 (consec) ran between St Mark’s Church and Ashburnham Grove where Ada Kennedy Court now stands (q.v.); nos. 10-18 (consec) ran south from Ashburnham Grove, now nos. 40-56 (evens) Greenwich South Street.

The original Greenwich Town Centre Conservation Area (1968) took in Queen Elizabeth’s College but no other part of the Ashburnham Triangle. The Ashburnham Triangle Association was formed in part to rectify this omission. Their campaign was crowned with success on 17 January 1980 when the London Borough of Greenwich Planning and Development Committee approved the designation of the locality as a Conservation Area, though with boundaries that excluded part of the Triangle at each corner. At the North-east not only was the Queen Elizabeth’s College excluded (as already being in another Conservation Area) but also Lambard House and the Maitland Close Estate (including 106-134a Greenwich High Road). In the South-west the education buildings on the corner of Blackheath Road and Greenwich High Road including Kent House were excluded together with the hoarding next to it concealing a gap in Greenwich High Road, and Maurice Drummond House behind it in Catherine Grove. In the South-east 83 Blackheath Road to the end and round the corner to 100 Greenwich South Street were excluded together with the industrial backland at the rear of Guildford Grove. Otherwise the boundaries ran down the centre of the three boundary roads of Blackheath Road, Greenwich High Road and Greenwich South Street. (See later ATA info for more recent changes to the boundaries of the Conservation Area).

This was no. 4 Blue Stile, renumbered as 165 Greenwich Road in 1875, and is now 161-165 Greenwich High Road. It is the centre house in the row to the left of Straightsmouth. It is a Grade II listed building and according to the statutory list dates from the early to mid-eighteenth century.

The road that is now Ashburnham Place has had a remarkable number of names before it was developed in the 1850s. It existed long before it was developed and formed a lane at the rear of the Drapers’ Company’s property in their role as trustees of the Queen Elizabeth College. In the Company’s Court of Assistants’ minutes of 16/1/1771, it was referred to as "the Back lane". This is obviously a description but also a name and seems likely to have been used in conjunction with the local name of Cut Throat Lane (q.v.). In the nineteenth century after the establishment of the Jubilee Almshouses, the road was called Jubilee Walk or the Walk but as late as the mid-century the name of Back Road, clearly a variant of Back Lane with the same connotation, is to be found. After that, Ashburnham Road (later Place) replaced all former names.

Bacon’s Library map of London and suburbs, scale 9 3/8th inches to the mile. [1877]. –[Another copy]. H. No.165 (2 copies)

An alleyway off Bath Place (John Penn Street) mentioned in the 1841 census but unrecorded on any maps. Two alleyways are shown on Morris’ map (1838) both running north to Blackheath Road and both with buildings. These have elsewhere been identified with Ditch Alley and West Passage (qq.v.), neither of which appear in the 1841 census; and so Bath Alley might be an alternative name for either. The census entry reads: ‘Bath Place – Bath Alley or Bath Passage’.

See ‘Greenwich Baths and Wash-houses for the Labouring Classes, London Street’

In the map in the Greenwich Planning’s Ashburnham Triangle Conservation Area leaflet (July 1995) the various buildings of the former Merryweather’s Works (later the Greenwich Business Centre – Skillion Centre, demolished ca. 2009) are named. Along the Greenwich High Road frontage from left to right were Bell House (to the left of the Rose of Denmark PH), Siren House (the other side of the pub); beyond that on the other side of the service road was Pump House (“with ‘Merryweather’ incised in the parapet of the building) and lastly Brigade House, a nondescript single storey extension between Pump House and the newsagent next to the Miller’s PH. At the rear, accessed via the service road, were Station House behind Pump House and Engine House behind Bell House/Siren House. The names reflected the business of Merryweathers manufacturing fire engines.

No. 59 London Street, a house on the south side of the street (now Greenwich High Road) just east of Thornton Row (Greenwich South Street) opposite Bexley Place (q.v.). It obviously shares its name with the latter and, in default of evidence to the contrary, it may date from the same period (ca. 1820). It was bought by Greenwich Metropolitan Borough ca 1904 as the site for a new library (see West Greenwich Library)

After being empty for several years, MELANIE KLEIN HOUSE was bought by the Beaver Housing Trust in 1994 and was converted for student housing and leased to Greenwich University. It opened late in September 1994 in time for the 1994/95 university year. ‘Melanie Klein’ had the wrong associations for the University and the Council accordingly renamed it. The name originally announced was Teddington Court (q.v.) but the name actually used was Binnie Court. It is unclear whether the announcement was wrong or the Council had a late change of mind. Sir Alexander Binnie (1839-1917) was Chief Engineer to the LCC, 1890 – 1905. Among the many civil engineering works he was responsible for was the Greenwich Foot Tunnel. Later demolished and replaced by residential housing.

This was a station on the London, Chatham and Dover’s branch line to Greenwich Park. The line had a troubled history. It was authorized by act of Parliament on 28 July 1863 but the first section to Blackheath Hill was not opened until 18 September 1871 and it was not extended to Greenwich (station called Greenwich Park after 1 July 1900) until 1 October 1888. The final section linking up with South Eastern’s North Kent Line beyond Greenwich was never built. The line was closed as a war economy measure in January 1917 but never reopened. It was finally abandoned and the track taken up in 1929. The station was built on a bridge across the lines on the south side of Blackheath Hill near the bottom of the hill. The lines ran in a tunnel under the road (used as an air-raid shelter in World War 2) and emerged on the other side where the service road now is between the rear of Plumbridge Street and the electricity sub-station by the side of Dabin Crescent. Nothing remains of the station, its site being occupied by the blank wall at the rear of Robinscroft Mews (entrance in Sparta Street) between Dover Court and Robertson House.

Later ILEA’s Greenwich Adult Education Institute (q.v.) and later still offices and flats.

The original name (which still survived on the right-hand gable) for what became Lewisham College, West Greenwich Branch (q.v.). The school in Catherine Grove was once an annex to this (see ‘Greenwich Adult Education Institute’).

A variant spelling of Blissett Street; for a considerable while, it was the predominant spelling.

A street dating from the early nineteenth century (it first appears on Crutchley’s map of 1828) branching off the East side of what is now Greenwich South Street, running from there to Royal Hill. According to the card index of Greenwich street names at the Local History Library, it was built on land owned by Elizabeth Blissett on the Tithe map (1845). As the street is considerably older than the Tithe map, it would be safer to say it was named from the Blissett family although it should be mentioned that it is called ‘Blizard Street’ on the Crutchley map. This is almost certainly a misprint but Blisset Street with one ‘t’ is a genuine variant and was originally the more usual form. It is the Southern (Greenwich South Street) end that is most closely connected with the Triangle. The Royal George PH (q.v.) virtually fronted Greenwich South Street and was a Triangle ‘Local’. The Fire Station next door, which formerly faced the other direction and exited via Lindsell Street, is part of the local scene. On the other side of the road, Woodville Court (q.v.) at the junction of Blissett Street and Greenwich South Street has entrances via both streets.

This was also spelt Blue Style and Blew Style and consists of a row of houses set at a slight angle to the main road on the north-west side of Greenwich High Road immediately to the south-west of Straightsmouth, forming the street frontage of the former Lovibond’s Brewery, now the wine firm, Davys of London. The name is uncertain but well into the nineteenth century the hinterland of this road was rural (Church Fields, q.v.) and this may have been the site of a turnstile to stop animals straying onto the road (cf. Great and Little Turnstile between High Holborn and Lincoln’s Inn Field). The row dates from the early eighteenth century, through much altered since, and formerly extended further north-east. At this end, approximately on the site of the present railway station or a little beyond, was briefly the previous home of James Wolfe's father before he moved to Macartney House. The present home-numbering is confusion; the row of six houses lies between no. 159 and 173 (odds) Greenwich High Road and logically should number 161-171- and once did. Now the first home on the left as you face it, is Colonel Jaspers which appears to be un-numbered; next Davys Wine Vaults is numbered 165; then the centre house, now used as offices, is numbered 161-165 though for postal purposes all three are number either 161 or 161-165. This is followed by 167, 169 and 169a. As there is no ‘171’, this is bizarre. The matter is complicated by the renumbering plan of 19 November 1875 which shows Blue Stile renumbered as nos. 173-183 Greenwich Road, that is between Straightsmouth and Greenwich Station. These plans are normally reliable but contradict most other evidence; all relevant maps and directions show Blue Stile to be between the un-named service road to the left of the present Colonel Jaspers and Straightsmouth though there is some evidence that at times Blue Stile was reckoned to extend either side of Straighsmouth (see the next two entries). However, nos. 6-1 Blue Stile in Kelly’s directory for 1872 became nos. 161-171 (odds) Greenwich Road in that of 1876. The present houses are of varying dates. Colonel Jaspers and Davys Wine Vaults, which surprisingly are unlisted, date from ca 1835 according to Darrell Spurgeon’s Discover Greenwich and Charlton and form a handsome pair of two- and three-storey stuccoed Italianate buildings with basements. Next is the central building of the group, listed Grade 2 (q.v. Athelney House for more details). No. 167, somewhat smaller though still three storeys and a basement, is also listed Grade 2 and dates from the early eighteenth century. No. 169 is locally listed and is described as being early eighteenth century, remodelled in the nineteenth century and with extensive renewal of the front brickwork after War damage. The V1 flying bomb which damaged 169, destroyed 171 (Melville House, q.v.) and 169a which replaced it is modern (in scale but using machine-made bricks and metal window frames). At the side in Straightsmouth is the goods yard and loading bay of Davys Wines Salon and at the rear the former Lovibond’s Brewery building, ca 1865 and unlisted.

This appears only in the 1871 census returns and is not confirmed in the contemporary Kelly’s directions. According to the presumptions discussed in the previous entry, Blue Stile South would correspond to the section of Greenwich (High) Road set at an angle between Straightsmouth and the service road next to the Colonel Jaspers – in other words, what was otherwise simply called ‘Blue Stile’.

This was on the corner (south side) of Brand Street and presumably took its name from the street.

The Department of Transport route number for one of the south-east routes out of London. It branches off the A2 Dover Road after Deptford Bridge and goes down Greenwich High Road, the point within the Ashburnham Triangle, and passes through Greenwich town centre (Nelson Road) and on via Romney Road, Trafalgar Road and the Woolwich Road to Woolwich and on via Plumstead, Erith, Crayford and Dartford, where it links up to the A2 again.

A block of council maisonettes on the west side of Greenwich South Street between St Mark's Church and Ashburnham Grove with access via the latter. It was completed in 1975 (voters were first listed in the 1976 electoral register) and occupies the site of the northern half of the former Ashburnham Terrace (1 to 9 consecutive, subsequently 22–38 evens, (Greenwich) South Street). This part of the Terrace was presumedly very much like the remainder (now 40 to 56 evens) but was largely destroyed by the same V1 that damaged Saint Marks beyond repair. The redevelopment was named after Ada Dorothy Alice Kennedy, a councillor of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich from 1932 for the then North West Ward, at that time adjacent to the Ashburnham Triangle. She was Mayor of Greenwich for 1942/43 and Deputy Mayor the following year and received the freedom of the Borough on 17th May 1957.

The former name of 71 Greenwich South Street, almost opposite Ashburnham Place, the first (northernmost) of a row of houses (nos 71–85) on the east side of the street formerly called Arlington Place. The cottage obviously took its name from the same source as the row, but what this was is unknown. It was part of the Morden College Estate and the Morden College mark can be seen on the building. The name Arlington Place had dropped out of use by the time South Street was renumbered in 1870, but Arlington Cottage was still so named then, when it was renumbered no. 61. It was subsequently renumbered again to the present no. 71. Built ca. 1820 by W. Neil according to a plaque in the modern Arlington Place.

A 1990 development on back land (formerly a stable-yard) behind 73–81 Greenwich South Street with entrance through an archway between nos. 79 and 81. Built by M. Sharland according to a plaque and taking the former name for that stretch of South Street behind which it stands.

The surrounding area was bought by Sir Ambrose Crowley in 1754 and came two years later as a dowry from Elizabeth Crowley, his grand-daughter and heiress, to John, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham. His grandson, the 4th Earl, developed what was left in his ownership and named all the streets after his title: Ashburnham Grove, Road (later Place), Terrace and Villas (qq.v.); Ashburnham Retreat (q.v.) was named much later but from the same source. Ashburnham Grove was laid out ca. 1850 (one ratepayer recorded that year) and was fully developed within a few years. It never had any subsidiary names and the name of the street and the street numbering have remained substantially unaltered from the start. Limited post-War redevelopment has occurred after bomb damage – at the West end, South side (Ashburnham Hostel (nos.72 - 80) q.v., and nos 81 - 88), and this end was also affected by the development of Ada Kennedy Court in Greenwich South Street (q.v.). Nos. 62-64 halfway down the North side were also destroyed, but after more than half a century they were rebuilt in 1997 as replicas of the originals.

This runs from Egerton Drive to Greenwich South Street. The south side, on land belonging to the Earl of Ashburnham, was developed in the early 1850s. First, probably, was the three pairs of villas, 1-6 Ashburnham Villas, towards the east end; next, almost immediately, Nos.1-27, a terrace between Egerton Road (now Drive) and what is now Ashburnham Retreat; and finally Nos. 28-36, a larger terrace of the 1860's, (still incomplete on the O.S. map of 1869). On the north side the first development, ca. 1860, was a row of cottages, Nos1-6 Lambard Villas on part of the garden of Maitland House somewhat to the west of the future Langdale Road; to the west of this in 1898 was built the last major development in the Triangle on land owned by the Drapers’ Company as trustees of Queen Elizabeth College, namely Nos.1-23 Lambard Terrace, a row of houses each built as three flats. On 22 November 1900, the subsidiary names were abolished, though some lingered for a few years, and the houses were renumbered (1-36 unaltered, Ashburnham Villas and St Mark’s Manse as 37-43, Lambard Villas as 44-49 and Lambard Terrace as 50-72). St Mark’s Church on the corner of (Greenwich) South Street was rebuilt in 1953 and further reconstructed in the 1980s with a hostel to the rear (no. 40). Nos 1-9 were redeveloped in 1953 as Lamley House and Nos 39-43 as St Mark’s Close. For earlier names see Back Lane, Cut Throat Lane, Jubilee Walk, the Walk, Back Road, Ashburnham Road and Lambarde Road.

The lane that had formed the dividing line between the Drapers’ Company’s Queen Elizabeth College estate to the north and the Earl of Ashburnham’s estate to the south had many names before it was developed (see Cut Throat Lane, Back Lane, Jubilee Walk, the Walk and Back Road). When the Earl of Ashburnham started to develop his side of the lane at the beginning of the 1850s, he gave it his name – Ashburnham Road. In 1939, to avoid confusion with Ashburnham Road, Chelsea, it was renamed Ashburnham Place (q.v.) after briefly being called Lambarde Road (q.v.).

A neighbourhood in West Greenwich bounded by Blackheath Road, Greenwich High Road and Greenwich South Street. Whether the area should include or exclude the boundary roads and, if include, whether one side (as in the Conservation Area) or both sides is discussed more fully in the introduction.(And note later expansion of Triangle boundaries to include both sides). Originally part of the medieval estate of Swan, or ‘Swanne’, House owned by the Courteneys, Earls of Devon. Early in reign of Elizabeth I, it was bought by Edmund Chapman, chief-joiner of the Queen and son of Richard Chapman, the Queen’s master-shipwright of Deptford. In 1575 he exchanged a wedge of land in the north of the Triangle with William Lambarde for some of Lambarde’s property in Westcombe. The land acquired by Lambarde became the Queen Elizabeth’s College estate. The remainder of the estate passed via William Smith, Sergeant-at-arms to James I and founder of the Ship Tavern, to Dr Robert Mason, Secretary to the Duke of Buckingham. Mason acquired the estate by 1631 and it remained in his family for well over a century. His grandson, Christopher Mason, father of Admiral Christopher Mason, divided the estate and in 1754 sold most of the Triangle portion to Sir Ambrose Crowley, the Newcastle ironmaster, and already a substantial Greenwich landowner. This came via his grand-daughter Elizabeth to her husband John, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham. By the eighteenth century, apart from the Queen Elizabeth’s College estate, the properties fronting Greenwich (High) Road (especially Lawn house estate sold by Mason to Mr Heysham in the 1750s), Blackheath Road, and the southern end of Lime Kiln Lane (now Greenwich South Street) had been alienated from the estate (if they had ever been a part of it). By the time of the Tithe Map (1845) the larger southern portion of the Triangle had been leased to Francis Valentine but both parts (Valentine’s and Ashburnham’s) were let to Samuel Tyler who farmed them as market gardens. Around mid-century both parts were leased for building development. Ashburnham Grove and Place (South side), linked by Ashburnham Retreat, were developed on Ashburnham’s land and Egerton Drive (began as early as 1830), Devonshire Drive and Guildford Grove on Valentine’s. At the same time Catherine Grove was developed on property which was part of Catherine House (in turn part of the Morden College Estate). A little later (ca 1855) Burgos Grove (originally Wellington House) was developed on part of the ground of Lawn House (now Wellington House). Finally, in 1866, Langdale Road was carved out of the ground of Maitland House, part of the Queen Elizabeth’s College estate who also developed the rest of their estate in Greenwich (High) Road, (Greenwich) South Street and Ashburnham Road (Place) piecemeal between 1773 and 1898.

Three pairs of houses (nos. 1-6) on the South side of Ashburnham Road (now Place) near the East end (St Mark’s Church and its manse lying further to the East). Built in the early 1850s (not ca. 1835 as stated by Darrell Spurgeon in Discover Greenwich and Charlton). Renumbered 37-42 Ashburnham Road (Place) on 21 November 1900; only 37/38 now survives after VI bomb damage, St Mark’s Close (q.v.) occupies the site of the remainder.

This is the Department of Transport’s route number for Norman Road and, within the Ashburnham Triangle, Egerton Drive. It links A200 (Creek Road, part of the ‘Lower Road’ route towards Central London) and the A2 Dover Road (Blackheath Road).

One of several names applied to what is now called Ashburnham Place. It is shown thus on Cruchley’s map of 1843 and Davies’s of 1852. The road forms the southern boundary of the Drapers’ Company’s former Queen Elizabeth College estate. As the College faces North, this was the rear of the estate, hence the name, similar to ‘Back Lane’ (q.v.) found in the eighteenth century. In the early 1850s, certainly before 1/1/1856 when the Metropolitan Board of Works assumed responsibility for street names, it was renamed Ashburnham Road (now Place).

A four-storey block of 16 council flats built in 1957 on the South side of Devonshire Drive near the Eastern (Greenwich High Road) end. Its name and that of Plymouth House, a similar block on the other side of the road, may commemorate the long-standing family links between Greenwich and Devon (Courtenay, Drake, Grenville, etc.) as outlined in Beryl Platt’s A history of Greenwich. More likely the first two were named simply by association with Devonshire Drive, the existing name of the street on which the flats were built.

The former name (to 1878) of 84 Blackheath Road, the long-time address of Berryman’s Printers (q.v.). Edward Berryman started his business further east in Blackheath Road in a part called Cold Bath Row (q.v.) and may have brought the name to his new premises. However, Bath House is nearer to the “Cold Bath” shown on Bowles’ map of 1787 (perhaps being the nearest premises on Blackheath Road to it) than any part of Cold Bath Row and the name may pre-date Berryman’s association with it.

An alternative name for Bath Alley (q.v.).

E.G. Berryman & Sons Ltd of 82-84 Blackheath Road was one of the oldest businesses in the neighbourhood. According to a letter dated .... at the Local History Library, Edward G. Berryman set up business in 1846 as a brass engraver at ‘3 Blackheath Road’ (at or near the present 112), moved at a date unknown to Bath House (q.v.), was joined by his two sons before 1891; and the firm became a limited company on his death in 1908. It was still a family business with descendants on the board at the time of the letter. Bath House was renumbered no. 84 (i.e. the present address) in 1878. He was settled at Bath House in the 1871 census returns but appears to have had at least one intermediate move. The ‘Deptford directory for 1853’ shows him at an unnumbered house at the end of Cold Bath Row, next to Holwell Place which would be just to the end of West Passage (q.v.).

199-213 Greenwich High Road (odds), four pairs of houses built in 1821 by Jesse Gibson, surveyor to the Drapers’ Company (q.v.. Queen Elizabeth College). Named after Nicholas Vansittart (1766 – 1850), M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer 1812 and created Lord Bexley 1821 who had Greenwich Connexions. (q.v.. Vansittart Place and Terrace). Renumbered as part of London Street (now part of Greenwich High Road) on 25 March 1870, and owned by the Drapers’ Company as part of the William Boreman Charity. There were originally fourteen houses, presumably seven pairs, and the row extended to what became the service road at the side of Iceland supermarket. This would explain why the name that can faintly be seen on the right-hand end pair of houses on a band at first floor level is where it is – it would have originally been on the middle pair of houses.

Part of the A2 Dover Road that continues Blackheath Road eastwards up the hill to Blackheath when it becomes Shooters Hill Road. The lower end by the crossroad with Greenwich South Street/Lewisham Road was part of the area known in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century as ‘Lime Kilns’ and has been closely associated with the Ashburnham Triangle.

A section of the main trunk road from London to the Kent coast officially designated the A2 and commonly called the Dover Road, it has also been known at various times as Canterbury Way, Kent Road, Rochester Road and Watling Street (all of which, q.q.v.). It occupies the section between Deptford Bridge (junction of Greenwich High Road/Deal’s Gateway) and Blackheath Hill (junction of Greenwich South Street/Lewisham Road) coinciding exactly with the Southern boundary of the Ashburnham Triangle. It is the road (from London) to Blackheath at the top of Blackheath Hill. The North side is largely occupied by late eighteenth or early nineteenth century residences and contains the greatest concentration of listed buildings in the Triangle. The South Side is more industrial and formerly contained the Penn Engine Works (q.v.). For subsidiary names see Brant Houses, Catherine Place and Row, Cold Bath Row, Holwell Place, Hughes Court, Queen’s Place, Union Place, Valentine Terrace and Winton Place; for adjacent cul-de-sacs see Jean’s Place, Deal’s Gateway, Queen’s Cottages, Skinner’s Row and Sycamore Court.

See ‘Greenwich magistrate’s Court’

A plaque on Lambard House, Langdale Road states: ‘Part of this building covers the former “Blind Man’s Garden” provided by the Drapers’ Company’. Pre-war maps show the site partly occupied by greenhouses, obviously a small nursery and the last remnant of the market gardens that once covered most of the Triangle.

A former short terrace of four houses at the northern end east side of Blissett Street, set at an angle on the corner with Grove Place (later Renbold Place). Nothing survives. It was located opposite the junction of Royal Hill with Blissett Street where Darnall House, part of the Royal Hill Estate, now stands. The next block of flats, Renbold House, is not on the alignment of the former Renbold Place.

This is the spelling of Blissett Street (q.v.) on Crutchley’s map of 1828. As this is the first appearance of this street on a map, this may represent its original name but as it appears nowhere else and as ‘Blissett’ is a logical name (from the family that owned the land thereabouts), it seems more likely that this is a mis-spelling.

In the 1871 census returns, Blue Stile is described as North and South divided by Straightsmouth. Greenwich (High) Road, in which it lies, runs north-east/ south-west so Blue Stile North should correspond to the stretch of Greenwich (High) Road between Straightsmouth and the Railway Station. On most of the evidence, this was not part of Blue Stile at all but on the re-numbering plan of 1875, it was the only part of the street so called. It must be presumed that the traditional ‘Blue Stile’ south-west of Straightsmouth began to be extended north-east and that it was thought convenient to distinguish the two halves as ‘North’ and ‘South’. The confusion was swept away in 1875 when Greenwich Road was renumbered and subsidiary names including Blue Stile were abolished.

Bowles’s New and Accurate Survey of the cities of London and Westminster with the borough of Southwark [and] the adjacent country, London, 4th June 1787. Note: Two incompatible bar scales given [4: 1=1000 yards; 6.5”: 1m.] D&H no. 182 (2)

These comprise a block of flats, Nos. 89-93, on the north side of Blackheath Road near the east end. Like a similar block around the corner in (Greenwich) South Street (Nos. 114-118), it bears a plaque with the initials T.D.B. and the date 1902. According to Diana Rimel in “The Ashburnham Triangle”, T.D.B stands for Sir Thomas Dacres Butler (1845-1937) and the block was a kind of almshouse. Brant Houses is on the site of WARREN HOUSE which was owned by ‘Butler’ according to the schedule of the 1845 Tithe map. Slightly earlier (? Mid-1830s) the area is described as ‘Butler’s Estate’ on the map of the Holwell Charity Estate map.