Palewell Lodge

Albert Betts' drawing of Palewell Lodge, with two cows in the foreground, shows what much of East Sheen must have looked like in the 19th century.

Palewell Lodge stood on the site of one of Mortlake's common fields, Stonehill Shott. It was built by Thomas Page in 1756. The Palewell estate was an extensive one stretching from the Upper Richmond Road to what is now Vicarage Road, and from Richmond Park Road to Hertford Avenue. The house was approached by a fine avenue of elms, now East Sheen Avenue. During the 19th century it was owned by three generations of the Gilpin family, notably William Gilpin, but often let out rather than lived in by them.

In 1896 around 50 acres of the estate were sold for development, and within a few years 150 houses had been built on Palewell Park. In 1913 land bequethed by the then owner, Major Shepherd-Cross, became available for building All Saints' Church. The house itself was pulled down in 1925.