Brook House

London Road, north side, next to Neville House, Twickenham

a watercolour of the house from about 1868

1635 “Built by a Baron of the King’s Court of the Exchequer” (as well as Perryn House?)
1765 Brook House School (Rev Colston Carr)
1785 House surrendered to Rev Colston Carr by the son of William and Ann Cowdrey
1818 Rev Colston Carr’s (1740-1822) school
Mrs Hodges
1829 Captain Ramsden (later at Ivy Lodge)
House reduced in height

Brook House in 1909

1830 Miss Porter “for some years”
c1840 *John Philip Trew (also leased Asgill House in Richmond, then Quenby Hall, Leicestershire when he became Master of the Quorn Hunt)
1860 ditto
Edmund B Ashford m Louisa Elizabeth Vialls (1814-1913), daughter of the Rev Thomas Vialls of Radnor House