Plan of Arnos Grove from 1918 sale particulars

Beaver Hall was a country house in

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, England. It was set in grounds of around that stood to the east and south of the current Waterfall Road, then known as Waterfall Lane and Church Hill, near the old centre of

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. The grounds stretched as far south as the

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where

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was later built. Beaver Hall was acquired by John Walker of the Taylor-Walker brewing family in 1870. The house was demolished in 1871 and the grounds merged into the adjacent Arnos Grove estate.

The house

According to

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's ''The Buildings of England'', the house was built in the 1760s, possibly to a design by the architect

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who also worked on

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house. It stood near the corner of the modern Waterfall Road and Chandos Avenue.Dumayne, p. 145. It was drawn and engraved by John Hassell in 1804 at which time it was the home of the merchant and shipowner

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. Subsequently, it was the home of the Schneider family, who moved to England from Switzerland in the eighteenth century.

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, industrialist and politician, was born there in 1817 to the merchant John Henry Powell Schneider ( – 1861) and his second wife, Elizabeth Moule. The house was occupied by the railway contractor Joseph Thornton (1804–1889) and his family from at least 1858. The 1861 census shows him there with his wife Amelia and six children (one visiting with her husband), a governess, lady's maid, nurse, cook, butler, footman, and four other maids.Joseph Thornton England and Wales Census, 1861.
Family Search. Retrieved 19 January 2018.

Demolition

The house and its grounds were acquired by John Walker of the Taylor-Walker brewing family in 1870."Some Account of Southgate"
by C. Edgar Thomas in '' The Home Counties Magazine'', Vol. XI, 1909. pp. 167–181 (p. 176). The house was demolished in May 1871 Pam, David. (1982) ''Southgate and Winchmore Hill: A Short History''. London: Broomfield Museum. p. 13. and the grounds merged into the adjacent Arnos Grove estate as part of what

Alan Dumayne Alan Peter Dumayne (21 April 1929 – 30 April 1998) was an historian of North London known for his lectures and books on the history of Southgate, Palmers Green, and Winchmore Hill. Life Alan Dumayne was born in Harringay on 21 April 1929

called a "private

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" policy of the Walkers of acquiring neighbouring estates and demolishing the house in order to prevent local development. The Walkers had done the same with the adjacent Minchington Hall in the 1850s.Dumayne, pp. 125–126. The stone from the house and many of the fittings were used in the construction of Stone Hall in Church Hill,

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, in 1872.

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* {{coord, 51.6231, -0.1324, type:landmark_region:GB, display=title Country houses in London Arnos Grove Southgate, London Demolished buildings and structures in the London borough of Enfield Former houses in the London Borough of Enfield Buildings and structures demolished in 1871

The house

Demolition

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