The Pettiward Estate is a privately owned set of reversions in the far edge of two inner boroughs of south-west London, England, now owned by a family trust of the family, who were from 1794 until 1935 of Finborough Hall, Suffolk. The family oversaw and took a direct involvement in much of the speculative development of these areas: parts of West Brompton and small parts of Putney.
The family trust's key landholdings are in Putney and West Brompton, London. Most of the houses were originally let for a large premium, to give long leases, archetypally 99 years. These have been gradually reduced in number by freehold enfranchisement, however value loss has been counteracted by a manifold increase in property prices in the capital over the last centuries, greater than all other British cities.
John Pettiward - In 1630 John Pettiward married Sarah White[1] daughter and heiress of Henry White of Putney,[2] who during the Commonwealth appointed by Parliament as Sheriff of Surrey in 1653.
Roger Pettiward (fl.1660) - The Pettiwards appear to have been Royalists, and following the Restoration of the Monarchy of 1660, "Roger Pettiward, Esq. of Putney", was listed as one of the persons qualified to be elected one of the proposed Knights of the Royal Oak, which Order of Chivalry was not proceeded with for political reasons.
John Pettiward (born 1652) of Putney - married Honor Davies and left an only daughter as sole heiress, Elizabeth Pettiward (born 1685), who in 1709 married George Mortlock.
Rev. Roger (Mortlock) Pettiward (1712–1780) - Elizabeth Pettiward's son, of Fairfax House, Putney, in 1749 succeeded to the estates of his uncle Walter Pettiward (d.1749), under which terms, in 1749 he obtained a private Act of Parliament to adopt the surname and arms of Pettiward in lieu of his patronymic.
Robert John (Bussell) Pettiward (died 1908) - Lady Hotham was succeeded in 1856 as the income-receiving beneficiary (life tenant) by her husband's great-nephew Robert John Bussell (d.1908), who as privately required adopted the surname Pettiward. This also enabled taking up for life in any of the homes from time to time fully vacant, and he chose the customary seat, per his probate, of Finborough Hall[7] He married Lady Frances Catherine Nelson (d.1877), eldest daughter of Thomas Nelson, 2nd Earl Nelson (1786–1835).[7] Robert John Pettiward decided to build houses on the land, and had plans completed for so doing in October 1862. A sewer had been built under the land in 1855 by the Metropolitan Commissioner of Sewers, under compulsory powers, unbeknownst to Pettiward, who in 1865 claimed compensation of £1,500 as his plans would need redrawing.[11] The Pettiward's building contractor was William Corbett and Alexander McClymont, who built most of the houses in the 1860s.[12] About 220 houses were built at that time on land owned by R. J. Pettiward.[13] He died in 1908 leaving or having had only 9 daughters, so per the tail male the estates passed to his cousin below, who in 1908 by royal licence adopted the surname Pettiward in lieu of his patronymic. Robert's probate was sworn in 1908 at £107,264 (equivalent to about £11,900,000 in 2021).[14]
Charles (Terry) Pettiward (1855–1933) - cousin, who in 1908 by royal licence adopted the surname Pettiward in lieu of his patronymic. In 1904 he married Eliza Mary Gamlen (1880–1952),[15] 6th daughter of Robert Heale Gamlen of New Place, Welwyn. He died in 1933; his probates, personal and as to his trust interests, were resworn the next year at £208,541 (equivalent to about £15,800,000 in 2021).[14]
Roger Gamelyn Pettiward (1906–1942) - latterly of the Causeway, Braughing,[14] eldest son and heir, a well-critiqued cartoonist in Punch Magazine who used the pseudonym "Paul Crum",[16] educated at Eton College, Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied agriculture, and as an art student at the Vienna State Academy, the Munich State Academy and Slade School of Art. In 1932 he was part of an expedition with Peter Fleming to Brazil to search for the British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett who had disappeared in the Brazilian jungle in 1925. In 1933 following his father's death he inherited the Pettiward estates and sold Finborough Hall in 1935.[7] In 1935 he married Diana Berners-Wilson, daughter of Frederick Berners-Wilson of the Hardwick, Abergavenny, Wales,[7] and in 1938/9 built a modern home at The Studio House,[17] Duke's Head Yard, Highgate High Street, North London. He served in World War II with the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment and was killed in action on 19 August 1942 at Dieppe whilst leading a commando troop against German coastal guns.[18] he left a son and heir (below).[7] His two probates (for trust interests in and free ones) were sworn in 1943 at £152,912 (equivalent to about £7,316,000 in 2021), with a further effects (being 13.4%) of this coming to light for a third grant needed in 1946.[14]
Charles Pettiward (born 1936).
West Brompton, SW10edit
This part of the estate takes up what was the north-west corner of Chelsea, south of Earl's Court and north of World's End. Surviving records show the Pettiward family as landowners in south-west Kensington in the 1640s. Their West Brompton estate appears to have been acquired later, by Walter Pettiward (died 1749). The Pettiwards sold a small part of their estate[19] to James I Gunter (died 1819) in 1811,[13] a confectioner of Berkeley Square, whose son Robert I Gunter (d.1852) and grandsons Sir Robert Gunter, 1st Baronet (1831–1905) and James II Gunter developed much other land in the area, one of his main streets being Gunter Grove, the southern continuation of Finborough Road beyond the junction with Fulham Road. The estate was bounded to the west by the land of William Edwardes, 2nd Baron Kensington (1777–1852), 39 acres of which he sold before 1840 to form the Brompton Cemetery, opened in 1840. The eastern boundary was the east side of Redcliffe Gardens, the property of James Gunter.[20] The northern boundary was the back of the houses on Redcliffe Lane. The north–south extent thus comprised numbers 2 to 58 Redcliffe Gardens, west side.[21]
to east: east side of Redcliffe Gardens, the property of James Gunter.[20]
to north: rear of houses on Redcliffe Lane. The north–south extent thus comprised numbers 2 to 58 Redcliffe Gardens, west side.[22]
The highest-ceiling homes tend to draw on the South Kensington style, red but also frequently polychromatic (involving cream, yellow and dark shades of red/brown) brick terraces, many distinguished by rusticated quoins and other stone dressings, particularly light, multi-level cornices (at lower storeys often called plats/bands).
Finborough Road, the southern half only, both sides, named after the Pettiward family seat of Finborough Hall in Suffolk. A road running on a north–south axis between Fulham Road and Old Brompton Road.
Redcliffe Gardens, anciently "Walnut Tree Lane", the southern half only, west side only, numbers 2 to 58; the freeholder of the east side was James Gunter.[20] Redcliffe Gardens runs parallel to and on the east side of Finborough Road. The name "Redcliffe" was selected by James Gunter, whose larger estate to the immediate east of the Pettiward Estate he named the "Redcliffe Estate".
Ifield Road, anciently "Honey Lane", southern three quarters only, both sides, immediately west of and parallel to Finborough Road, also running on a north–south axis between Fulham Road and Old Brompton Road.
Putneyedit
The Pettiward family owned farms in part of the area between the Lower and Upper Richmond Roads. Roger Astley (died 1780) by his will dated 15 February 1778 bequeathed to Roger Pettiward his "copyhold estate at Putney consisting of three tenements".[23] In 1893 on this agricultural land immediately east of Erpingham Road was built an athletic track and concrete cycling velodrome, the first of its type in the United Kingdom. In 1904 houses were built on the land, as to these key streets:[24]
Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, pp. 1796-7, pedigree of Pettiward formerly of Finborough Hall
^Per narrative in law case 26 June 1865 "Arbitration of Pettiward v. Metropolitan Board of Works, Court of Common Pleas Trinity Term, 1865. The Law Journal Reports, Volume 34, pp.301-6 [2]
^. Archived from the original on 2015-04-22. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
^East of Hereford House (to the east of the present Colherne Court apartment block) on the southern side of Old Brompton Road
^ abc'The Boltons and Redcliffe Square area: The Gunter estate, 1864-78', in Survey of London: Volume 41, Brompton, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1983), pp. 211-228 [3]
^The whole estate is marked "K" on figure 58 in 'The Boltons and Redcliffe Square area: Introduction', in Survey of London: Volume 41, Brompton, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1983), pp. 195-202 [4]
^The whole estate is marked "K" on figure 58 in 'The Boltons and Redcliffe Square area: Introduction', in Survey of London: Volume 41, Brompton, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1983), pp. 195-202 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol41/pp195-202
^See lawsuit Pettiward v. Prescott, June–August 1802, Rolls, published in: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of ..., Volume 7, By Francis Vesey, John Eykyn Hovenden, p.541 [5]
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The Pettiward Estate is a privately owned set of reversions in the far edge of two inner boroughs of south west London England now owned by a family trust of the family who were from 1794 until 1935 of Finborough Hall Suffolk The family oversaw and took a direct involvement in much of the speculative development of these areas parts of West Brompton and small parts of Putney Finborough Hall Great Finborough near Stowmarket Suffolk purchased in 1794 and rebuilt by Roger Pettiward d 1833 and sold in 1935 by his eventual heir Roger Gamelyn Pettiward 1906 1942 in 2021 used as Finborough Hall School Contents 1 Extent 2 Descent 3 West Brompton SW10 4 Putney 5 Sources 6 ReferencesExtent editSee also leasehold estate and London The family trust s key landholdings are in Putney and West Brompton London Most of the houses were originally let for a large premium to give long leases archetypally 99 years These have been gradually reduced in number by freehold enfranchisement however value loss has been counteracted by a manifold increase in property prices in the capital over the last centuries greater than all other British cities Descent editMain article Pettiward Family John Pettiward In 1630 John Pettiward married Sarah White 1 daughter and heiress of Henry White of Putney 2 who during the Commonwealth appointed by Parliament as Sheriff of Surrey in 1653 Roger Pettiward fl 1660 The Pettiwards appear to have been Royalists and following the Restoration of the Monarchy of 1660 Roger Pettiward Esq of Putney was listed as one of the persons qualified to be elected one of the proposed Knights of the Royal Oak which Order of Chivalry was not proceeded with for political reasons John Pettiward born 1652 of Putney married Honor Davies and left an only daughter as sole heiress Elizabeth Pettiward born 1685 who in 1709 married George Mortlock Rev Roger Mortlock Pettiward 1712 1780 Elizabeth Pettiward s son of Fairfax House Putney in 1749 succeeded to the estates of his uncle Walter Pettiward d 1749 under which terms in 1749 he obtained a private Act of Parliament to adopt the surname and arms of Pettiward in lieu of his patronymic Roger Pettiward 1754 1833 FRS Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries 3 4 eldest son and heir He was a partner in the wholesale stationery firm of Wright and Gill of Abchurch Lane but soon retired from business Master of the Worshipful Company of Stationers 1831 2 5 In 1794 he purchased Finborough Hall 6 near Stowmarket Suffolk 7 from Col William Wollaston died 1797 MP He died in 1833 at Trafford Park Lancashire aged 78 The Pettiward family had owned the nearby manor of Onehouse since the 16th century He rebuilt Finborough Hall in 1795 to a design by Francis Sandys 8 of Bury St Edmonds who also worked at Ickworth House 9 10 He was Sheriff of Suffolk in 1811 There were no surviving male heirs Robert John Bussell Pettiward died 1908 Lady Hotham was succeeded in 1856 as the income receiving beneficiary life tenant by her husband s great nephew Robert John Bussell d 1908 who as privately required adopted the surname Pettiward This also enabled taking up for life in any of the homes from time to time fully vacant and he chose the customary seat per his probate of Finborough Hall 7 He married Lady Frances Catherine Nelson d 1877 eldest daughter of Thomas Nelson 2nd Earl Nelson 1786 1835 7 Robert John Pettiward decided to build houses on the land and had plans completed for so doing in October 1862 A sewer had been built under the land in 1855 by the Metropolitan Commissioner of Sewers under compulsory powers unbeknownst to Pettiward who in 1865 claimed compensation of 1 500 as his plans would need redrawing 11 The Pettiward s building contractor was William Corbett and Alexander McClymont who built most of the houses in the 1860s 12 About 220 houses were built at that time on land owned by R J Pettiward 13 He died in 1908 leaving or having had only 9 daughters so per the tail male the estates passed to his cousin below who in 1908 by royal licence adopted the surname Pettiward in lieu of his patronymic Robert s probate was sworn in 1908 at 107 264 equivalent to about 11 900 000 in 2021 14 Charles Terry Pettiward 1855 1933 cousin who in 1908 by royal licence adopted the surname Pettiward in lieu of his patronymic In 1904 he married Eliza Mary Gamlen 1880 1952 15 6th daughter of Robert Heale Gamlen of New Place Welwyn He died in 1933 his probates personal and as to his trust interests were resworn the next year at 208 541 equivalent to about 15 800 000 in 2021 14 Roger Gamelyn Pettiward 1906 1942 latterly of the Causeway Braughing 14 eldest son and heir a well critiqued cartoonist in Punch Magazine who used the pseudonym Paul Crum 16 educated at Eton College Christ Church Oxford where he studied agriculture and as an art student at the Vienna State Academy the Munich State Academy and Slade School of Art In 1932 he was part of an expedition with Peter Fleming to Brazil to search for the British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett who had disappeared in the Brazilian jungle in 1925 In 1933 following his father s death he inherited the Pettiward estates and sold Finborough Hall in 1935 7 In 1935 he married Diana Berners Wilson daughter of Frederick Berners Wilson of the Hardwick Abergavenny Wales 7 and in 1938 9 built a modern home at The Studio House 17 Duke s Head Yard Highgate High Street North London He served in World War II with the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment and was killed in action on 19 August 1942 at Dieppe whilst leading a commando troop against German coastal guns 18 he left a son and heir below 7 His two probates for trust interests in and free ones were sworn in 1943 at 152 912 equivalent to about 7 316 000 in 2021 with a further effects being 13 4 of this coming to light for a third grant needed in 1946 14 Charles Pettiward born 1936 West Brompton SW10 editThis part of the estate takes up what was the north west corner of Chelsea south of Earl s Court and north of World s End Surviving records show the Pettiward family as landowners in south west Kensington in the 1640s Their West Brompton estate appears to have been acquired later by Walter Pettiward died 1749 The Pettiwards sold a small part of their estate 19 to James I Gunter died 1819 in 1811 13 a confectioner of Berkeley Square whose son Robert I Gunter d 1852 and grandsons Sir Robert Gunter 1st Baronet 1831 1905 and James II Gunter developed much other land in the area one of his main streets being Gunter Grove the southern continuation of Finborough Road beyond the junction with Fulham Road The estate was bounded to the west by the land of William Edwardes 2nd Baron Kensington 1777 1852 39 acres of which he sold before 1840 to form the Brompton Cemetery opened in 1840 The eastern boundary was the east side of Redcliffe Gardens the property of James Gunter 20 The northern boundary was the back of the houses on Redcliffe Lane The north south extent thus comprised numbers 2 to 58 Redcliffe Gardens west side 21 The estate bordered to west land of William Edwardes 2nd Baron Kensington 1777 1852 39 acres 0 16 km2 of which he sold before 1840 to form the Brompton Cemetery opened in 1840 to east east side of Redcliffe Gardens the property of James Gunter 20 to north rear of houses on Redcliffe Lane The north south extent thus comprised numbers 2 to 58 Redcliffe Gardens west side 22 The highest ceiling homes tend to draw on the South Kensington style red but also frequently polychromatic involving cream yellow and dark shades of red brown brick terraces many distinguished by rusticated quoins and other stone dressings particularly light multi level cornices at lower storeys often called plats bands Finborough Road the southern half only both sides named after the Pettiward family seat of Finborough Hall in Suffolk A road running on a north south axis between Fulham Road and Old Brompton Road Redcliffe Gardens anciently Walnut Tree Lane the southern half only west side only numbers 2 to 58 the freeholder of the east side was James Gunter 20 Redcliffe Gardens runs parallel to and on the east side of Finborough Road The name Redcliffe was selected by James Gunter whose larger estate to the immediate east of the Pettiward Estate he named the Redcliffe Estate Ifield Road anciently Honey Lane southern three quarters only both sides immediately west of and parallel to Finborough Road also running on a north south axis between Fulham Road and Old Brompton Road Putney editThe Pettiward family owned farms in part of the area between the Lower and Upper Richmond Roads Roger Astley died 1780 by his will dated 15 February 1778 bequeathed to Roger Pettiward his copyhold estate at Putney consisting of three tenements 23 In 1893 on this agricultural land immediately east of Erpingham Road was built an athletic track and concrete cycling velodrome the first of its type in the United Kingdom In 1904 houses were built on the land as to these key streets 24 Earldom Road Landford Road Clarendon Drive Hotham Road 24 Sources editBurke s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry 15th Edition ed Pirie Gordon H London 1937 pp 1796 7 pedigree of Pettiward formerly of Finborough HallReferences edit Burke s 1937 p 1796 Daniel Lysons Putney in The Environs of London Volume 1 County of Surrey London 1792 pp 404 435 http www british history ac uk london environs vol1 pp404 435 See obituary in Gentlemans Magazine October 1833 pp 370 1 See image of his armorial bookplate Obituary in Gentlemans Magazine October 1833 pp 370 1 For description of house amp contents see Davy Henry Views of the seats of the noblemen and gentlemen in Suffolk 1 a b c d e f Burke s 1937 p 1797 St Georges School Finborough Hall Great Finborough Suffolk SANDYS FRANCIS 2 Dictionary of Irish Architects Finborough Hall Suffolk images Archived from the original on 2015 07 22 Per narrative in law case 26 June 1865 Arbitration of Pettiward v Metropolitan Board of Works Court of Common Pleas Trinity Term 1865 The Law Journal Reports Volume 34 pp 301 6 2 The Boltons and Redcliffe Square area Introduction in Survey of London Volume 41 Brompton ed F H W Sheppard London 1983 pp 195 202 http www british history ac uk survey london vol41 pp195 202 a b Sheppard a b c d https probatesearch service gov uk Calendar of Probates and Administrations Mural tablet Great Finborough Church Paul Crum Cartoons Images PUNCH Magazine Cartoon Archive See image Roger Gamelyn PETTIWARD Christ Church Oxford Archived from the original on 2015 04 22 Retrieved 2016 04 23 East of Hereford House to the east of the present Colherne Court apartment block on the southern side of Old Brompton Road a b c The Boltons and Redcliffe Square area The Gunter estate 1864 78 in Survey of London Volume 41 Brompton ed F H W Sheppard London 1983 pp 211 228 3 The whole estate is marked K on figure 58 in The Boltons and Redcliffe Square area Introduction in Survey of London Volume 41 Brompton ed F H W Sheppard London 1983 pp 195 202 4 The whole estate is marked K on figure 58 in The Boltons and Redcliffe Square area Introduction in Survey of London Volume 41 Brompton ed F H W Sheppard London 1983 pp 195 202 http www british history ac uk survey london vol41 pp195 202 See lawsuit Pettiward v Prescott June August 1802 Rolls published in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Volume 7 By Francis Vesey John Eykyn Hovenden p 541 5 a b Putney s Local Web site Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Pettiward Estate amp oldid 1189121133, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
