Plots 24 & 25
House numbers
By February 1857; Pitt Shone & Wood had already sold these two plots - plot 24 to Hill and plot 25 to Richard Wyatt. Thomas Wood at this time held plots 5 - 9 but by the August of the same year he had sold these to Dicksons and bought plot 24 from Hill and half of plot 25 from Wyatt. Thomas Wood & Richard Wyatt (at 34yrs managing a telegraphic office) then built one of the first properties (nos: 9 & 13) and were occupying them by the 1861 census. In the 1872 OS survey they are known as Laburnum Villas. Certain architectural features such as the gothic-style windows are early Victorian and do not occure elsewhere in the Park. The 1871 OS survey shows Wood using plot 24 as his garden grounds with his two storey coachhouse/stables at the far end. Wyatt had only the half plot but his stableblock which was also two storey was situated at the rear (nearly a century later extended to create no:11).
An indenture dated 25 March 1882 conveyed the stable block as part of
a 1117 sq yd subplot from Miss Sarah Thomas to Mr William H Finchett.
It is assumed that the other half of plot 24 was also sold and that
the double property (nos:15 /17) was then built. Completing the development
of the plots on the inner circle and by now Upton Park having become
established and desirable; this property was one of the grandest and
reflected the Chester late Vicorian vogue for mock-Tudor half-timbered
architecture.
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