This is about as close as we are going to get to Hampton House.
It stood just a little back from Edge Lane and gave its name to the road that now runs past its northern side.
Time has not been kind to the house or its memory and even the caption has helped wipe it off the map because there is no reference to Hampton House in what is otherwise a very detailed description.
“Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Edge Lane, Victorian Post Box, North east side: 10, Corner of Hampton Road, showing Victorian Post Box built into wall of semi-detached houses built in what was garden of Barway House”.
Now Barway House still stands, and is nu 28 Edge Lane, but the plot now inhabited by those semi-detached houses, behind the stone wall with its Victorian Post Box was home to Hampton House.
Like it's neighbour Hampton House was built around 1866 and was situated in its own grounds with a long straight drive which ran off from Edge Lane, past the house to what may have been a large stables.
I can track its residents through from the 1860s into the 20th century, and then the trail goes cold. It is not listed on the street directories for 1903 or 1911 and is absent from the census records.
But there is perhaps a clue in the listing for 1909 which records that a Mr George Meredith was living there and described him as “caretaker”.
And that suggests that the owners were not there and that no one was renting the property which was also the fate of Barway House at about the same time.
But unlike Barway House which was reunited with residents later in the century Hampton House may not have been so lucky, because by 1921 it had been demolished and maps show the site remained empty until sometime in the mid 1950s when our semi-detached houses were built.
All of which begs the question of what might have been wrong with property.
It may have been poorly built or it might just have been too large. By 1939 Barway House had been divided into flats and the adverts in Manchester Guardian show that the same fate had befallen some of other big houses in Chorlton.
In the end the answer will in part lie in a careful trawl of the street directories for the early part of the 20th century which if we are lucky will reveal the names of residents up to 1921.
Well we shall see.
Location; Chorlton
Pictures; Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Edge Lane, Victorian Post Box, North east side: 10, Corner of Hampton Road, showing Victorian Post Box built into wall of semi-detached houses built in what was garden of Barway House, A E Landers, m17775, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass extract from the OS map of 1894 courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://www.digitalarchives.co.uk/
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| The garden wall of Hampton House, 1959 |
Time has not been kind to the house or its memory and even the caption has helped wipe it off the map because there is no reference to Hampton House in what is otherwise a very detailed description.
“Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Edge Lane, Victorian Post Box, North east side: 10, Corner of Hampton Road, showing Victorian Post Box built into wall of semi-detached houses built in what was garden of Barway House”.
Now Barway House still stands, and is nu 28 Edge Lane, but the plot now inhabited by those semi-detached houses, behind the stone wall with its Victorian Post Box was home to Hampton House.
Like it's neighbour Hampton House was built around 1866 and was situated in its own grounds with a long straight drive which ran off from Edge Lane, past the house to what may have been a large stables.
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| Hampton House, 1894 |
But there is perhaps a clue in the listing for 1909 which records that a Mr George Meredith was living there and described him as “caretaker”.
And that suggests that the owners were not there and that no one was renting the property which was also the fate of Barway House at about the same time.
But unlike Barway House which was reunited with residents later in the century Hampton House may not have been so lucky, because by 1921 it had been demolished and maps show the site remained empty until sometime in the mid 1950s when our semi-detached houses were built.
All of which begs the question of what might have been wrong with property.
It may have been poorly built or it might just have been too large. By 1939 Barway House had been divided into flats and the adverts in Manchester Guardian show that the same fate had befallen some of other big houses in Chorlton.
In the end the answer will in part lie in a careful trawl of the street directories for the early part of the 20th century which if we are lucky will reveal the names of residents up to 1921.
Well we shall see.
Location; Chorlton
Pictures; Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Edge Lane, Victorian Post Box, North east side: 10, Corner of Hampton Road, showing Victorian Post Box built into wall of semi-detached houses built in what was garden of Barway House, A E Landers, m17775, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass extract from the OS map of 1894 courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://www.digitalarchives.co.uk/
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