| → | SAINT LEONARD’S ROAD. (no. 1 fronts Magdalen Road) |
corner of Magdalen Road, Exeter. St Leonard's Road, ca. 1900. Courtesy David Baker.
38 and 36b Magdalen Road, Exeter, 2022
38 Magdalen Road, Exeter, Besley's Exeter directory, 1925
38 Magdalen Road, Exeter, ca.1920. Courtesy David Baker.
| 38 | ||
| 16 | 1877 Oct 29 | Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. Mr. Bastone, 16. Magdalen-road. |
| 16 | 1878-1883 | Bastone, Mrs Jane, dairy and greengrocer |
| 16 | 1883 May 11 | Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. For sale, a spring trap, high wheels; and also a handsomely-marked carriage dog. Apply, 16, Magdalen-road, Exeter. |
| 16 | 1884 | Bastone, William, dairyman and greengrocer. |
| 16 | 1887 | Bastone, Robert, grocer's assistant |
| - | 1881 | Hutchings, George, butcher. Possibly no. 36 |
| - | 1882-1883 | Attwater, Alfred J., butcher. Possibly no. 36 |
| - | 1887 | Turl and Son, dairyman and butchers. Possibly no. 36 |
| - | 1890-1893 | Turl, Thomas Newton, butcher. Possibly no. 36 |
| - | 1890-1893 | Cook, John Reginald, dairyman. Possibly no. 36 |
| 36-38 | 1897-1906 | Bastone, William, dairy. |
| 38 | 1919-1923 | Bastone, William junior, butcher. |
| 38 | 1925-1926 | Hanson, John, butcher. |
| 38 | 1930-1932 | Conibear, Ralph, butcher and purveyor. |
| 36-38 | 1935-1939 | Bastone, Leonard R., fruiterer and florist. |
| 38 | 1942 | [not listed] |
| 38 | 1969 | Southernhay Contract Cleaners Ltd, office & window cleaning contractors |
| 38 | 1987 | Flower Shop |
| 38 | 1994-2023 | Gibson's Plaice, fishmonger. Tel: 495344 |
| 38 | 2023-2024+ | Grocer on the Green, greengrocer. Tel: 01392 966761. gogdeliveries@gmail.com. Moved from no. 36b. |
| 36b | ||
| 36b | 1961-1965 | Bastone, Mrs M |
| 36b | 1991 | [unused? - 34/38 unlisted] |
| 36b | 2018-2023 | Grocer on the Green, greengrocer. "Exeter’s smallest independent! Specialising in the absolute best fruit and veg that Devon has to offer. Delivery info: gogdeliveries@gmail.com". Moved to no. 38. |
| 36b | 2023-2026+ | Map, pop-up space. |
36a Magdalen Road, Exeter, 2022
| 36a | ||
| 36a | 1961 | Buley, S. G. watch maker. |
| 36a | 1969 | Stamp Corner, stamp dealer |
| 36a | 1996-2000 | Papillon Hair Salon, hairdresser. Tel: 493866. |
| 36a | 2002 | Headspace, hairdresser. Tel: 254464. |
| 36a | 2008 | To let [Streetview October 2008] |
| 36a | 2011 | Tiny Trousers, children's clothing. |
| 36a | 2011-2017 | Duo Interiors, soft furnishings. 36a |
| 36 | ||
| 36-38 | 1906 | Bastone, William, dairy |
| 36 | 1919 | Bastone, William senior, Mount Radford Dairy |
| 36 | 1923 | Bastone, Leonard R., Mount Radford Dairy |
| 36 | 1926-1932 | Bastone, Leonard R., dairyman and poulterer |
| 36-38 | 1935-1939 | Bastone, Leonard R., fruiterer and florist. |
| 36 | 1939 | Bastone, Leonard R., fruiterer and florist. |
| 36 | 1942 | Bastone, Leonard R., fruiterer and florist, dairyman. |
| 36 | 1946 | Bastone, Mrs M., fruiterer, florist, dairy. |
| 36 | 1961 | Youldon, W. J., grocer. |
| 36 | 1969 | Tancock, K. , cafe. |
| 36 | 1987-2002 | Toni Pizzeria, restaurant. Tel: 250920. |
| 36 | 2008-2024+ | Sandwiched In, coffee shop. Our priority is to satisfy our customers' needs, we offer a variety of excellent food, prepared with the freshest and finest ingredients, to the highest standard. Our takeaway offers delicious food at competitive prices. we now have a website, where you can order online, choose from our entire menu, order your favourite dishes and have them delivered straight to your door. |
| 34 | 2016 | Patch of green in front of house. Grocer on the Green [stall on Streetview, October 2016], moved to no. 36b |
Magdalen Road, Exeter. South side, jubilee or coronation? Courtesy David Baker.
| 34-20 | 1889-2023+ | Bouverie Place. Numbered 1-9 Bouverie Place 1833-1893 |
| 34-22 | 1943-1956 | Not listed, bombed in 1942 |
| 9 | 1858-1893 | 1861-1865 Reynolds, Rev. James Jubilee, curated Bedford Chapel, died 1865. |
| 34 | 1897-1942 | Bombed, rebuilt 1957-2023+ |
| 8 | 1833-1893 | 1833, lot for sale. 1854. House for sale. |
| 32 | 1897-1942 | Highcroft, 1926-1939. Bombed, rebuilt 1957-2023+ |
| 7 | 1843-1893 | 1843 for sale. 1857 for sale. |
| 30 | 1897-1942 | Bombed, rebuilt 1957-2023+ |
| 6 | 1841-1893 | 1841 newly erected. 1842 Hedgeland, Charles, architect. 1850 Sale. |
| 6 | 1852-1855 | Braund, John. 1856 Sale of effects. |
| 28 | 1897-1942 | Bombed, rebuilt 1957-2023+ |
| 5 | 1841-1893 | 1841 newly erected. 1845 sale. 1862 sale. |
| 26 | 1897-1942 | Bombed, rebuilt 1957-2023+ |
| 4 | 1855-1893 | 1855 sale of effects. |
| 24 | 1897-1942 | Bombed, rebuilt 1957-2023+ |
| 3 | 1875-1893 | 1875 Connolly, Mathew Joseph, deceased, former resident. 1881 nursemaid wanted. |
| 22 | 1897-1942 | Bombed, rebuilt 1957-2023+ |
| 2 | 1830-1893 | I am grateful to David Baker for most of the information on 2 Bouverie Place, which became 20 Magdalen Road, and was also known as Magda House. |
| 2 | 1830-1893 | It was built by a local builder, William Huxtable, who borrowed £300.00 from a local maiden lady in 1830. He then bought the site and built the house. It would seem he was somewhat slow in repaying the loan and was chivvied to do so more than once. When alterations were being made in the basement by David Baker the plumbers found a void under the floor in what was the front bedroom of the subsequent flat. On further investigation and enlargement of the hole, a well was revealed, quite deep and an excellently preserved example of a domestic well, neatly brick lined with the remains of the pumping apparatus dumped in the water at the bottom. The water was clear and sweet. It was sealed over and hidden. The city’s public water supply was introduced a few years after the house was completed, so the use of the well was discontinued. |
| 20 | 1897-1939 | The house was let until just after World War 2 to a variety of tenants. Early newspapers report it being let in 1868, and being for sale in 1870. |
| 20 | 1940-1960? | During the war years the tenant was Mrs Mildred Fowle who lived there with her husband Arthur and sons Geoffrey, David and Arthur Jack. It was she that named the building Magda House, using the initials of her family. She let rooms to nurses and similar single professionals. When David owned the house all the upstairs rooms had wash hand basins and gas fires. During the 1942 blitz properties all round No. 20 were damaged. Mrs Fowle had been sent down to St Leonards church hall. However she came back to see how her home was faring. By that time the roof had caught fire from a neighbouring property. The indomitable Mrs Fowle collected some soldiers who happened to be in the area and organised them to put the roof fire out, so no. 20 was saved. Mrs Fowle also ran the house as a base for the Cyclists Union using one of the large basement rooms as a diner. |
| 20 | 1953 | Magda House 1953. Ownership dates to check. |
| 20 | 1960-1974 | The first owner occupier was Donald Shepherd who was an Exeter builder. He lived there with his wife & daughters. As a builder, he was ideal to gradually repair and restore the old house. |
| 20 | 1974-2007 | He finally sold it to David Baker and family who lived there for 33 very happy years. When funds allowed they continued the renovations, installing new wiring, plumbing and central heating, and converting part of the huge basement into a self contained two-bedroomed flat. |
| 20 | 2007+ | They finally sold Magda House in 2007 to Mr Probert who continued to upgrade the property. |
| 1 | 1839-1874 | Elliott, Dr William Henry, physician, died January 1874. |
| 1 | 1875 | Bennet, Thomas, bank manager, bankrupt 1875. |
| 1 | 1876 | Reynolds, Herbert Edward, librarian Exeter Cathedral. Short residence only? |
| 1 | 1881-1893 | Nourse, William, surgeon. Bouverie House, 1, Bouverie Place. |
| 18 | 1897-1899 | Nourse, William, surgeon. Left Exeter 1899. |
| 18 | 1904-1910 | Hussey, John Walton. [private resident?] |
| 18 | 1919 | Jones, Lewis. [private resident?] |
| 18 | 1920-1939 | Lovely, Dr Charles Newton, M. D. physician. Dr Charles Newton Lovely (1864-1947), general practitioner and social reformer, was founding chairman of the Exeter Workmen's Dwellings Company which built over 500 homes in Exeter between 1926 and 1939, including King’s Dwellings, King Street, where he is honoured by an Exeter Civic Society blue plaque. His work is continued today by Cornerstone. |
| 18 | 1927-1932 | Hudson, F. H., M.R.C.S., surgeon. |
| 18 | 1930 | Lovely, Hudson and Preece, medical practice. |
| 18 | 1942 | Lempriere, S. R. [private resident?] |
| 18 | 1943 | Miller, Major. [private resident?] |
| 18 | 1949-1967 | Dunkerley, Dr J. T. physician and surgeon. |
| 18 | 1969-2023+ | [later residents not traced] |
| → | WONFORD ROAD. At first named Radnor Place or Coombe Leonard. Richmond Villa, listed in Magdalen Road in 1854, is actually no. 7 (previously 50) Wonford Road. | |
| 16-2 | 1926 | Mount Vernon, numbered 1-6 1883-1893. Residents not traced. |
| 16 | 1883-2023+ | 1 Mount Vernon. 1887 Bodley, Owen A. |
| 14 | 1883-2023+ | 2 Mount Vernon. 1887 Warmington, Augustus Henry. |
| 12 | 1883-2023+ | 3 Mount Vernon. 1887 Cathrey, Miss Joanna. |
| 10 | 1883-2023+ | 4 Mount Vernon. 1887 Hartnoll, George Frederick. |
| 8 | 1883-2023+ | 5 Mount Vernon. 1887 Padfield, William A. |
| 6 | 1883-2023+ | 4 Mount Vernon. 1887 Porter, Miss Adelaide 1920-1942 West Park Villa |
| 4 | 1883-2023+ | Belle Vue. 1887 King, John Gould. 1920-1942 Dunscombe |
| 2 | 1883-2023+ | South Lawn. 1887 Lendon, Mrs. (Now several properties) |
| → | FAIR PARK ROAD. | |
| - | Magdalen Hospital | |
| - | 1161/1184 | Bishop Bartholomew granted to the lepers of Magdalen Hospital five marks of silver annually plus income from his woods in Chudleigh and other sources. The chapter also granted them 14 loaves weekly. They should live “chastely and honestly" and not exceed the number of thirteen brethren. They could collect tolls on corn and bread and had various other sources of income, including one penny on the admission of each freeman to the City. The Hospital was situated in Bull Meadow on the east bank of the Shitbrook and consisted of a quadrangle with a chapel on one side and residential buildings on the other three. |
| - | 1244 | Hospital transferred from Exeter Diocese to Exeter Chamber. |
| - | 1458 | Richard Orenge mayor of Exeter in 1454 admitted to Hospital because of leprosy. |
| - | 1599 | Magdalen Road filled up and paved in Shitbrook valley. |
| - | 1746 | Three houses were used as almshouses. |
| - | 1806 | Chapel desecrated and in a filthy condition. |
| - | 1821 | Charity Commissioners found that the Hospital consisted of “a building in a fair state of repair, containing three houses of two rooms each inhabited by three poor persons and their families and another building, old and in bad repair containing eight rooms … those on the ground floor very damp, inhabited by eight poor persons and their families. Each of the poor persons have small plots in the garden, in which stands the old chapel, now consisting only of the walls and roof. … Divine service has not been performed in this chapel for many years past." |
| - | 1835 | Hospital transferred from Exeter Chamber to Exeter Municipal and General Charities. |
| - | 1863 | The remaining buildings were found to be so dilapidated as to render them unfit for occupation" demolished and permission granted to erect new almshouses on part of Fair Park North, land which was owned by the charity. |
| → | Which brings us back to Magdalen Cottages on the other side of the road and neatly closes the circle of our itinerary along Magdalen Road. |
