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| → | MAGDALEN ROAD. Return along south side. | |
| 120-106 | Previously numbered 132-118 and 1-8 Port View Terrace. | |
| 1910-1924 | 1-8 Port View terrace. | |
| 1942 | 132-118 Port View Terrace. | |
| BAKER STREET. | ||
| 104-88 | Previously numbered 116-100 and 9-17 Port View Terrace. | |
| 1910-1924 | Numbered 9-17 Port View Terrace. | |
| 1942 | Numbered 116-100. | |
| 1962-2024+ | Numbered 104-88. | |
| → | BARRACK ROAD. | |
| 86-80 | 1904-1932 | no houses. Numbered 96-90 1951. |
| - | 1936-1949 | Dane End. Not previously listed. |
| 96 | 1951-1961 | Dane End |
| 86 | 1962-2024+ | No name given in directories from 1962. |
| - | 1936-1949 | Fylde. Not previously listed. |
| 94 | 1951-1961 | Fylde |
| 84 | 1962-2024+ | No name given in directories from 1962. |
| - | 1937-1949 | Wardley. Not previously listed. |
| 82 | 1951-1961 | Wardley |
| 82 | 1962-2024+ | No name given in directories from 1962. |
| - | 1939-1942 | Ballina (dentist 1939-1946). |
| 90 | 1951-1961 | Ballina |
| 80 | 1962-2024+ | No name given in directories from 1962. |
| → | MANSTONE TERRACE. First listed 1933. | |
| 78-68 | 1932-2024+ | Only 86 numbered in 1920, intermediate houses not numbered until 1962 |
| 78 | Previously numbered 86 | |
| - | 1891-1918 | Penrose Villa |
| 86 | 1920-1961 | Penrose |
| 78 | 1962-2024+ | No name given in directories from 1962. |
| 76 | Previously not numbered | |
| - | 1935-1961 | Blackhayes (from 1949 Dunmarley). Not previously listed. |
| 76 | 1962-2024+ | No name given in directories from 1962. |
| 74 | Previously not numbered | |
| - | 1935-1961 | Rathbride. Not previously listed. |
| 74 | 1962-2024+ | No name given in directories from 1962. |
| 72 | ||
| - | 1934-1961 | Little Marlands. Not previously listed. |
| 72 | 1962-2024+ | No name given in directories from 1962. |
| 70 | ||
| - | 1939-1961 | Dingle House |
| 70 | 1962-2024+ | No name given in directories from 1962. |
| 68 | ||
| - | 1888-1910 | Marlands |
| - | 1891 | Convent of the Faithful Companions of Jesus. |
| 80 | 1928-1932 | Marlands demolished 1932. Alfred Wheaton (printer?) resident 1928. |
| 80 | 1939-1961 | Marland Lodge |
| 68 | 1962-2024+ | No name given in directories from 1962. |
| [78] | The Noble Meadow, a field located in the parishes of St Leonard and Heavitree, containing approximately five acres. The history of Noble Meadow and Marlands has been put together from Chains of title Victoria Park Road & Victoria Terrace, Exeter : a compilation of Title Deeds from the Noble Meadow & Marlands Estates, compiled March 2026 by David Radstone. It is currently being reconciled with newspaper references and directory entries and demonstrates just how much information is potentially available on individual properties. | |
| 1730? | Noble Meadow. Wrey, Chichester. Part of the estates of Chichester Wrey, the younger son of 5th Baronet, Sir Bourchier Wrey (c.1683–1726). He took holy orders in the standard way for younger gentry sons. The heirs of the Bourchiers, Earls of Bath, were the Wrey family of Trebeigh Manor in Cornwall. | |
| 1750? | Noble Meadow. Chilcot, Thomas (1707–1776) “the Royal Organist” was born in Bath. He was apprenticed to Josiah Priest, the organist of Bath Abbey. After Priest’s death in 1725, his post (one of the best-paid positions for a British organist outside London) was given to the teenage Chilcot. He became Grand Master of the Royal Cumberland Lodge of Freemasons and was also among the original members of the Society of Musicians, founded in 1739. He married Anne Wrey, a member of a prominent West Country family (the Wrey baronets), in 1749.Chilcot’s large estate, which included Noble Meadow, was auctioned in a “great Number of Lots.” | |
| 1764. | Noble Meadow. Baring, John, of Mount Radford was the eldest son of Johann Baring, the Bremen clothier who settled in Exeter, and together with his brother Francis he established John and Francis Baring, the London merchant bank that became Barings Bank (the oldest merchant bank in Britain, until its collapse in 1995). Baring bought Mount Radford, his Exeter estate in St Leonard's parish, in 1755 — just nine years before he acquired Noble Meadow, which lay immediately adjacent | |
| 1810? | Noble Meadow. Baring, Sir Thomas. | |
| 1820s-1830s | Noble Meadow. Successive plots were sold off for residential development, creating the row of substantial terraced houses now known as Victoria Terrace (later renumbered Victoria Park Road). The new road which became Victoria Terrace was constructed by George Ponsford Luke as part of a deliberate speculative development of the Noble Meadow land. Luke made a road from Magdalen Road through Noble Meadow to Matford Lane (later Barrack Lane), and subsequently a second road communicating with Barrack Lane, to open up the field for building. Plots were then sold to individual developers, including Robert Fisher, who built the first houses. Luke also held land in the adjacent fields known as Exeter Meadow and Venn Park, and his network of roads defined the layout of the entire area. The architect of the larger properties on Victoria Park Road was John Hayward (1808–1891), who also designed the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Pembroke College Oxford library, Exeter Prison, and over sixty churches. Hayward lived at No. 1 Victoria Park Road. Luke’s roads transformed the meadows south of Magdalen Road from agricultural land into one of Exeter’s most fashionable residential addresses within a generation. | |
| 1822. | Noble Meadow. White, Edward. | |
| 1825. | Noble Meadow. Kingdom, Samuel. Almost certainly "Iron Sam" Kingdon (1779–c.1835) — the spelling "Kingdom" being a period variant of the same name, common in deeds. The Kingdons were one of Exeter's most prominent Nonconformist merchant families, and the timing fits well. Samuel Kingdon Senior (1745–1797) came from a Thorverton family of established serge makers, built up a successful ironmongery and hardware business in Exeter, and issued the well-known Exeter halfpenny of 1792 engraved with "Success to the woollen industry." He died in 1797, just as the wool trade collapsed, leaving the business to his wife and sons. His son "Iron Sam" Kingdon (1779–c.1835) then transformed the family business into the largest iron foundry in the west of England, the firm later known as Garton and King. If the land passed to the estate and then to "Iron Sam," he would have owned Noble Meadow in the first decades of the 19th century before selling or conveying it to Luke around 1820–1833. Crucially, the Kingdons were Unitarians, baptised at George's Meeting House in Exeter — which places them squarely in the dissenting merchant class that drove much of Exeter's commercial development in this period. A cadet branch of the same family, the Taddyforde Kingdons, became prominent collectors and philanthropists: Kent Kingdon (1811–1889) left his art collection and the proceeds of Taddyforde House to what is now the RAMM. In 1825, the portion sold to Samuel Kingdon measured 1 acre 1 rood 2 perches (approximately 5,110 m²), bounded north by 132 feet of the highway from Magdalen Street to Heavitree, east by land of Thomas Bremridge, south by 161 feet of the hedge of Exeter Meadow, and west by another part of Noble Meadow. | |
| 1826 | Noble Meadow. Bremridge, Thomas. Conveyance by Executrix of Thomas Bremridge of Heavitree esq. to Margaret Baring of Heavitree, spinster of house built by Bremridge on part of Noble Meadow, to south of Exeter to Honiton road. DRO: 1926B/B/E/5/9 (Anstey and Thompson of Exeter) | |
| 1826 | Noble Meadow. Baring, Margaret. Conveyance by Executrix of Thomas Bremridge of Heavitree esq. to Margaret Baring of Heavitree, spinster of house built by Bremridge on part of Noble Meadow, to south of Exeter to Honiton road. DRO: 1926B/B/E/5/9 (Anstey and Thompson of Exeter) | |
| 1833 | Noble Meadow. Luke, William Ponsford. The 1833 conveyance confirms the 1825 boundaries, with the highway and Exeter Meadow hedge unchanged, the eastern boundary now described as the land of Sir Henry Farringdon, and the western boundary as premises of William Barcham. | |
| 1836. | Noble Meadow. Luke, George Ponsford, from whom Robert Fisher purchased a plot in 1838 upon which he erected the Victoria Terrace houses. George Ponsford Luke is listed as a solicitor in the 1850 Exeter trade directory at Musgrave's Alley. His middle name, "Ponsford," came from his mother, Rosa, a member of the Ponsford family of Drewsteignton. | |
| 1838 | Noble Meadow. Robert Fisher. George Ponsford Luke sold the plot to Robert Fisher, the eastern boundary had become a new road made by Luke from Magdalen Road through Noble Meadow to Matford Lane. This road became Victoria Terrace, later Victoria Park Road. | |
| [76] | The Marlands Estate lay to the south of Noble Meadow, a larger Georgian residential property. By 1834 Marlands had passed to Thomas Stevens, and by from 1887 to 1893 it was owned by the Faithful Companions of Jesus (FCJ) as a convent and school. When the FCJ sisters left in 1893, the estate was purchased by Alfred Wheaton, a bookseller of St Sidwell, Exeter. In 1932, following Wheaton’s death in Canada, the executors sold the estate; plots were carved off and sold separately, generating the Victoria Park Road and Magdalen Road properties documented in Parts 1 and 2 of this compilation. | |
| [76] | 1834 | Stevens, Thomas. |
| [76] | 1826–1874 | Various covenants Original owners to successors — |
| [76] | 1841-1874 | Marlands/Noble Meadow. Four restrictive covenants were created between 1841 and 1874 affecting the Marlands/Noble Meadow land. These coloured purple, green, blue and yellow on the title plan all remained subsisting at 1977. |
| [76] | 1852 Jan 10 | Tucker, Charles. The Exeter Twelfth Night Ball, Mr. C. and Mrs. Tucker, Miss Tucker (Marlands) attended, Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, page 5. |
| [76] | 1866 Oct 26 | Tucker, Charles, Marlands, Heavitree, subscribed £1 1s and Mrs. Charles Tucker, 1s to West of England Eye Infirmary. Western Times, page 8. |
| [76] | 1886 Jul 19 | Tucker, Charles. For sale by auction freehold detached family residence, with gardens, coach-house, stable, conservatories, and ornamental grounds, known as Marlands, containing two acres and a half or thereabouts, lately and for many years the residence of Charles Tucker, Esq., deceased … Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, page 1. |
| [76] | 1886 Jul 21 | Tucker, Charles. Auction sale at the Rougemont Hotel this afternoon by Mr. F. Faulkner White, for the disposal of a freehold detached residence known as Marlands, Heavitree, containing about two acres and a half. There was a good attendance and the property was started at 41,000. Express and Echo, page: 3. |
| [76] | 1887-1893 | Faithful Companions of Jesus, Convent and school. In 1865 FCJ were invited to Exeter by Fr Johnson SJ "pour le salut des âmes". Directories for the most part give the convent address as Holywell House, (in 1876 and 1885 Holloway House), Holloway Street. In 1887 the address is Marlands, Magdalen Road, Heavitree, Exeter. The Sisters had an upper boarding school in the City 1866-1893, from 1887 at Marlands under the name “Mount Radford Convent”. A 16th-century alabaster statue of the Madonna and Child was found buried in the garden of the former convent when the Wheaton family occupied Marlands. The statue is now believed to have belonged to Exeter Cathedral, buried there at the time of the Reformation. It is now held at St George’s Roman Catholic Church, Sudbury, and is known variously as the Exeter Madonna, the Marlands Madonna and Our Lady of Sudbury. |
| [76] | 1889 Mar | 28 Convent School, Marlands. We observe from the class list of the Kensington Local Examination just issued that the pupils of the Convent School, Marlands, Heavitree, have come in for a fair share of honours. For writing in the first class (with honours), Miss Violet Spicer ... Western Times, page 2. |
| [76] | 1893 Dec 28 | Wheaton, Alfred. Conveyance by Nuns of Friends of Jesus Convent (Vendors: Mary Slaughter, Margaret Kelly, Sarah Walley & Mary McGrath) to Alfred Wheaton, Bookseller, St Sidwell, Exeter £2,600 £2,000 paid to discharge existing 1891 mortgage to George Jones; £600 to Vendors. Sale of “Marlands” subject to 5 historic restrictive covenants. |
| [76] | 1913 Mar 25 | Wheaton, Alfred. Transfer of mortgage by Amelia Jones & Jane Jones (executors of George Jones decd) to Arthur Ernest Brock £1,500 transferred. Transfer of 1893 mortgage debt from executors of George Jones to A.E. Brock. |
| [76] | 1913 Sep 17 | Wheaton, Alfred. Transfer of mortgage Mary Elizabeth Farrant (formerly Wheaton) to Albert John Tucker £750 transferred Transfer of Jan 1894 mortgage (reduced from £1,000 to £750) to A.J. Tucker. |
| [76] | 1915 May 28 | Wheaton, Alfred. Consolidating mortgage A.E. Brock & A.J. Tucker (Mortgagees); Alfred Wheaton (Borrower) to General Life Assurance Co. trustees £4,650 consolidated Consolidation of both mortgage debts plus further advance. Life policy assigned as collateral security. |
| [76] | 1927 Aug | Wheaton, Alfred. Surrender & release, General Life Assurance Co. trustees to Alfred Wheaton. Full repayment. All mortgage principal repaid. Property released free of mortgage incumbrance. |
| [76] | 1927 Jan 29 | Wheaton, Alfred. Will directs Marlands be sold by auction or private treaty at option of Executors: Frederick Wheaton & Constance Lorna Wheaton. Three codicils added 1927, 1929, 1930. |
| [76] | 1931 Sep 15 | Wheaton, Alfred, died at 249 Wild Wood Avenue, Victoria, British Columbia. |
| [76] | 1932 Mar 16 | Wheaton, Alfred. Probate Frederick Wheaton & Constance Lorna Wheaton (Executors). Probate granted out of Exeter District Registry. The executors sold the estate; plots were carved off and sold separately, generating the Victoria Park Road and Magdalen Road properties. |
| [76] | 1932 Oct 15 | Stephens, James. Conveyance by Frederick & Constance Wheaton (Executors of Alfred Wheaton) to James Stephens, Electrician, Howell Road, Exeter £3,500 Sale of Marlands estate (including this Magdalen Road plot, frontage 47 feet 10 inches to Magdalen Road). Subject to covenants in 1932 conveyance. |
| [76] | 1932 Oct 15 | Stephens, James. Frederick Wheaton & Constance Lorna Wheaton (Executors) to James Stephens, Electrician, “Elmdene”, Howell Road, Exeter £3,500 Sale of Marlands estate. Plot to be known as 12 Victoria Park Road. Purchaser covenants to observe historic restrictive covenants. Party walls with Penrose Villa declared. Frontage 47 feet 10 inches to Magdalen Road. |
| [76] | 1932 | 12 Victoria Park Road (formerly “Roundway”), was carved out of the Marlands estate in 1932 when the Wheaton executors sold the estate to James Stephens. Stephens in turn sold the plot with approximately 40 feet of frontage to Victoria Park Road in 1934 to the three Golding sisters for £350. The property, known as “Roundway”, was held by the Goldings until 1977 when it was sold for £25,000 to Douglas and Margaret Crosse, upon which the freehold was registered at HM Land Registry. |
| [76] | 1932 Oct 17 | Stephens, James. Mortgage, James Stephens (Mortgagor) to H.W., H.T. & W.G. Michelmore, Solicitors, 18 Cathedral Yard, Exeter. £3,500 (3,000-year term). Principal mortgage over Marlands premises. |
| [76] | 1933 Mar 13 | Stephens, James. Further charge by James Stephens to H.W., H.T. & W.G. Michelmore, Solicitors, £1,000 further (£4,500 aggregate) Cross-secured with other Marlands plots. |
| [76] | 1933 Apr 27 | Stephens, James. Further charge by James Stephens to H.W., H.T. & W.G. Michelmore, Solicitors, £1,000 further (£5,500 aggregate) Cross-secured with other Marlands plots. |
| [76] | 1933 Jun 27 | Blackhayes. Parsons, Louisa Mary. Conveyance by H.W., H.T. & W.G. Michelmore (Mortgagees) & James Stephens (Vendor) to Louisa Mary Parsons, Widow, 3 Southernhay West, Exeter £1,650 (£1,000 to Mortgagees; £650 to Vendor) Conveys freehold of “Blackhayes”, Magdalen Road, 47ft 10in frontage. Rights of way over yellow-tinted entrance way and drainage into VPR. Mortgages discharged as to this plot. (ref. “2 Jun 1933” in some later deeds) |
| [76] | 1933 Jun 27 | Blackhayes. Carved from the Marlands estate in June 1933 when James Stephens (mortgaged to the Michelmores) conveyed the plot with 47ft 10in frontage to Magdalen Road to Louisa Mary Parsons for £1,650. The Michelmores, as mortgagees, were paid £1,000 of that sum in partial satisfaction of the £5,500 outstanding on the Marlands mortgage. The property is more particularly described in each subsequent conveyance by reference to the plan annexed to the 1933 conveyance. A right of way over an entrance way coloured yellow on that plan (shared with the owner of adjoining plot No. 2) and drainage rights leading into Victoria Park Road were created with the original 1933 conveyance and pass with the title. Note: Some later deeds refer to the 1933 conveyance date as “2 June 1933” while the transcription of the original deed gives the date as “27 June 1933”. This discrepancy appears in the deeds themselves; the 1957, 1965, 1973 and 1986 conveyances all adopt “2 June 1933”. |
| [76] | 1934 Feb 20 | Blackhayes. Parsons, Louisa Mary. Further charge Louisa Mary Parsons to Alfred Anstey, John Edward Tory & Vincent Thompson (Mortgagees) £1,100 Further mortgage on Blackhayes. (Anstey died 22 Aug 1940; Tory died 22 Mar 1941.) |
| [76] | 11 Dec 1941 | Blackhayes. Transfer of mortgage, Vincent Thompson (sole surviving Mortgagee) to Vincent Thompson, W.H. Goddard & Mrs F.M. Brannam (jointly) £1,100 outstanding Transfer on death of co-mortgagees. Outstanding principal £1,100 plus £100 (further charge) = £1,200. |
| [76] | 1945 Mar 21 | Blackhayes. Chudley, Ellen. Conveyance by Louisa Mary Parsons (formerly of Lower Summerlands, then of 5 Oaklands Avenue, Bishops Tawton) to Ellen Chudley (also Chudleigh), Widow, 44 North Street, Exeter Consideration unclear (amount illegible in deed). Conveys freehold of “Blackhayes” with all rights and appurtenances. Mortgages discharged. Subject to covenants in 1945 Blackhayes Abstract. |
| [76] | 1957 Aug 24 | Dunmarley. Russell, Muriel Florence. Conveyance by Ellen Chudley, Widow, 44 North Street, Exeter to Muriel Florence Russell (wife of Joseph Henry Russell), 1 Tresillian Gardens, Exeter £4,200 Property now called “Dunmarley” (formerly “Blackhayes”). Plan reference still the 1933 conveyance. Party walls on east, south and west sides. Solicitors: W.H. Stone & Co., Exeter. |
| [76] | 1965 Apr 2 | Alumhurst. Parrott, Rosemary Anne. Conveyance by Muriel Florence Russell of “Alumhurst”, Magdalen Road to Rosemary Anne Parrott, 34 Higher Kings Avenue, Exeter £6,250 Property renamed “Alumhurst” (formerly “Dunmarley”). Plan reference the 1933 conveyance. All access and drainage rights pass. |
| 76 | 1973 Nov 19 | Frowd, Bernard. Conveyance by Rosemary Anne Parrott (now of 76 Magdalen Road) to Bernard Frowd & Maureen Frowd (his wife), “Goodwood”, 199 Lincoln Road, Branston, Lincolnshire £23,900. Property now 76 Magdalen Road (“Alumhurst”). Vested in Purchasers as joint tenants. Subject to restrictive covenants in 1932 Wheaton/Stephens conveyance. Mortgage to Hastings & Thanet Building Society (benefit later transferred to Anglia Building Society). |
| 76 | 1986 Mar 21 | Frowd, Bernard. Conveyance (transfer between spouses) Maureen Frowd (Wife) & Bernard Frowd (Husband, with Anglia Building Society consent) to Bernard Frowd (sole owner). Outstanding mortgage principal: £12,241.78. Maureen Frowd releases her interest to Bernard. Bernard takes over sole liability under the mortgage. All interest paid to date. Anglia Building Society releases Wife from all liabilities. |
| 76 | 1986 Nov 14 | Oliver, Ann Lilian. Conveyance by Bernard Frowd of Devon to Ann Lilian Oliver (consideration not stated in transcription). Conveys freehold of 76 Magdalen Road, St Leonards, Exeter (formerly “Alumhurst”). All drainage and access rights pass. Subject to 1932 restrictive covenants. Solicitors: Parry Moxon, 9 Marsh Street, Bristol. |
| → | VICTORIA PARK ROAD. 1895-1910 named Victoria Terrace | |
| 66-58 | 78-76 Penleonard Place | |
| 66 | Previously numbered 78 and 1 Penleonard Place | |
| 1 | 1891 | |
| 78 | 1895-1932 | |
| 66 | 1967-2023+ | |
| 64 | Previously numbered 76 and 2 Penleonard Place | |
| 2 | 1891 | |
| 76 | 1904-1932 | |
| 64 | 1967-2023+ | |
| 62 | ||
| 74 | 1895-1932 | Penleonard |
| → | Passage to Penleonard Close | |
| 60 | 58A? | Lesador |
| 58 | Previously numbered 72 | |
| - | 1838 | Spurbarne |
| 72 | 1888-1908 | Spurbarne, |
| 72 | 1920-1942 | Hensleigh House |
| 56 | ||
| - | 1838 | Rectory House and glebe |
| 70 | 1904-1920 | St Leonard’s Rectory |
| - | 2023 | Magdalen Gardens |
| 54 | ||
| - | 1838-1904 | Trinity parish field (1838) unbuilt to 1904 |
| 68 | 1904-1920 | [to check]. |
| - | 2023 | Magdalen Place 1920 |
| 68 | ||
| 52 | ||
| - | 1838-1904 | Trinity parish field (1838) unbuilt to 1904 |
| 66 | 1908-1920 | Awsland |
| 52 | 1967 | [empty] |
| 52 | 2023-2024 | Compass House. Talkworks 2023. Sold by Devon County Council 2024. |
| → | MARLBOROUGH ROAD. First named in directories 1904 | |
| - | 1838-1904 | Trinity parish field (1838) unbuilt to 1904 |
| 50 | ||
| 48 | ||
| - | 1838-1904 | Trinity parish field (1838) unbuilt to 1904 |
| 48 | 1906-1942 | [to check]. |
| 46 | ||
| - | 1838-1904 | Trinity parish field (1838) unbuilt to 1904 |
| 46 | 1908-1920 | Bakhatla, |
| 46 | 1926-1942 | [no houses named] |
| 46 | 1967-1969 | The Garden School (4-8 years) |
| 44-46 | 1992-1995 | Exeter Tutorial College. Closed January 2020. |
| 44 | ||
| - | 1838-1904 | Trinity parish field (1838) unbuilt to 1904 |
| 44 | 1906-1942 | [to check]. |
| 44-46 | 1984-2020 | Exeter Tutorial College. Closed January 2020. |
| 42 | 2022-2026 + | Zenith House, Magdalen Road 2022 |
| 42 | ||
| - | 1838-1904 | Trinity parish field (1838) unbuilt to 1904 |
| 42 | 1906-1933 | [to check]. |
| 42 | 1934-2024+ | Zenith House |
| 42 | 1934-1955 | Warren, A. H., proprietor, Motor Mecca |
| 42 | 1957 | Warren, Mrs R. E. , [private resident] |
| 42 | 1957-1963 | Barton Motor Co. Ltd, car dealers |
| 42 | 1967 | Motor Mecca, motor car agents and dealers |
| 42 | 1973 | Kastner Volvo, car dealers. Tel: 215691. |
| 42 | 1981-1997 | Kastner of Exeter Ltd, Volvo car showroom |
| 40 | ||
| - | 1838 | St Leonard’s Lawn, A. Abbott Esq. |
| 40 | 1895-1920 | St Leonard’s Lawn (nursing home 1906-1920) |
| 40 | 2002-2018 | [Four leasehold flats] |
| → | SAINT LEONARD’S ROAD. (no. 1 fronts Magdalen Road) |
