To the north of the Lower Richmond Road and east of Ship Lane lay an enclave of 32 terrace houses; Rose Cottages, Prospect Place and Guildford Place which formed a tight community in the 19th century.

In February 1870 the terrace of six houses, called Rose Cottages, was put up for auction. The cottages were small and recorded as having two bedrooms on the first floor with a parlour and kitchen on the ground floor, and a wc in the rear yard. The terrace was described as being in good repair and an excellent investment opportunity. However, the auctioneer did not mention the row of stables with six loose boxes that lay immediately behind the cottages. Neither was there any mention of the conditions in which the residents lived. Almost all the tenants of Rose Cottages in the 1871 Census were originally from Ireland although most of the children were born in Mortlake which suggests that the adults had been living and working locally for some time. The occupations were generally market garden labourers or general labourers, and one widow was a charwoman. With the exception of one married couple with just two children living at No.4, all the houses were made up of a married couple with up to three children, as well as either single or widowed lodgers. The two-bedroomed cottages would have been very cramped, and wages from market gardens low and seasonal, making life hard for all the occupants of Rose Cottages.

By 1881, conditions had not improved. In No.1 Rose Cottages, there was a couple aged 71 and 64 who both worked as gardeners, as well as a second couple with two children and the head of household's brother. At No.3 matters were worse; there was a widower, his daughter and two lodgers, a second widower and his son, a third couple, another widow, and a final widow with her granddaughter. Twelve people of all ages living in one very modest cottage.

The 1891 Census showed that although the smaller terraced cottages still housed large families of some four or five children, there were very few lodgers; a large proportion of people had been born locally and there was a wide variety of occupations including a ginger beer factor, dressmakers, brewery workers and a house painter.

By the time of the 1914 Valuation, Rose Cottages were described as old properties in bad order. They had been brick-built with the front elevation rendered in cement, and the rent was four shillings a week.

Prospect Place was made up of 14 small cottages. They too contained two rooms on the first floor and two on the ground floor with a wc in the yard. They were also described as old properties in bad order, but they may have been a little larger than Rose Cottages as their rent in the 1914 Valuation was six shillings a week. In the 1871 Census, there was a greater variety of occupations among the residents of Prospect Place, including bricklayers, laundry workers, a bootmaker, carpenters and domestic servants as well as gardeners; and the households, although large, had fewer lodgers than in Rose Cottages. The regular employment may have meant the families were better off than those who worked solely in market gardening.

Access to Prospect Place and Rose Cottages was via Guildford Place. Nos.1 to 3 Guildford Place were larger properties, with gardens. They had two small front rooms, a kitchen and scullery on the ground floor with three or four bedrooms. And although the buildings were described in 1914 as being in bad repair with cracks in the brickwork, the rent was nine shillings a week. Nos. 4 to 7 were two pairs of semi-detached houses with three bedrooms and a garden; their rent was seven shillings and six pence a week. Nos. 8 to 12 formed another row of five small terrace cottages, sometimes called Cromwell Cottages. In the 1914 Valuation these houses were described as being old, in bad repair with cracks in the brickwork. They had two small front rooms, a kitchen and scullery with a wc in the yard. The rent in 1914 was four shillings a week and they were very similar to Rose Cottages.

In January 1913, the brewers Watney Coombe Reid, purchased the freehold of the five small, terraced cottages, Nos. 8 to 12 Guildford Place, as well as the adjacent row of the six small, terraced cottages, Nos. 9 to 14 Prospect Place for £2000. In February Watneys bought the row of eight terraced cottages Nos.1 to 8 Prospect Place for £700.

Watney's applied to Barnes Urban District Council in July 1913 for permission to close the roads Guildford Place and Prospect Place, and to demolish all the houses, a total of 32 dwellings. These houses were described in the application as old, badly built, too crowded together and some were insanitary. Once demolished, Watney's agreed to build nine dwellings on Aynscombe Lane and five on the Lower Richmond Road. These new houses were never built even though Watneys undertook to commence building once the closure of the road was granted. Watneys also agreed not to demolish the houses until the new ones had been built. It is not known where the residents of these cottages were rehoused once their homes were demolished. In November 1917 a Mr Sharp agreed to demolish Nos.1 to 14 Prospect Place and Nos. 8 to 12 Guildford Place free of charge.

The houses on the Lower Richmond Road – Lancing Terrace and Bellevue Row, along with Guildford House, were not part of this development and would remain standing until the brewery's later expansions in the 1930s and 1970s.