Deodar Road is a street in Putney, in the London Borough of Wandsworth.[1] There are no other streets named Deodar Road in Great Britain. It was formerly the site of a mansion called The Cedars and a terrace of houses built in 1853. This was on the site of Copthall, a villa rebuilt in the 1620s. Next to this was a mansion, Putney House, built in the 1680s; it was converted into a College for Civil Engineers in 1839 and demolished in 1857.[2] When the railway and bridge crossing the Thames was built (1887-9) by The London and South West Railway it more or less went straight through the terrace of houses. The area fell into decline and the Cedars was demolished about 1890. The road was named after The Cedars; the Himalayan cedar, Cedrus deodara. It was previously called Ranelagh Road.[3][4] The odd numbered houses back on to the river.
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79 Deodar Road -
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Thornhill House -
49-51 Deodar Road -
Riverdale House
- ^ "Deodar Road Putney". Streetlist. 2023.
- ^ "The Cedars". Panorama of the Thames Ltd. 2015. Archived from the original on 12 February 2023.
- ^ Streets, Edith. "Deodar Road". Layers of London.
- ^ Walford, Edward (1878). "Putney". Old and New London. Vol. 6. pp. 489–503 – via British History Online.