In a post on 20 September 2024 questions were asked about Painsfield Villa. A search of the picture gallery on the Barnes and Mortlake History Society has now produced some answers – see below the map.

The Villa does not appear on a map of the area in 1850. It is shown in the map below which is dated 1873 in what is now Paynesfield Avenue. Houses were built on the eastern part of the road in 1902. An Indenture (or Lease) of that year sets out that Joseph Neville of Barnes granted the lease for 99 years to Alfred Basden of Fulham in consideration of the costs and expenses incurred by William Hattersley, Builder, who lived, according to the Electoral Register of 1904, at No 2 Paynesfield Avenue. An early example of a developer who lived on the premises?

1933 photos presumably shortly before demolition. At the back of the villa in the upper photo you can see the Post Office building which remains today – though it has been empty for some years save for a bit of machinery. To the left of the villa is a path which is now an area of wasteland.

An artist’s impression of 1903. A chimney seems to have disappeared between 1903 and 1933!