Tudor House & Tudor Chambers, Station Road, Wood Green

Edith's Streets mentions this faux Tudor structure as being previously sited where Wood Green Customer Service Centre and Homes for Haringey now have their offices at No. 48 - 'Office block which once housed Haringey Council Education Department. On the site of Tudor House and Tudor Chambers. Tudor House. This was used by the Inland Revenue and had been built 1924-25.  It was said to mainly consist of a converted barn’.

Ariel photographs from c1930 show an impressive looking Tudor style edifice on the corner of River Park & Station Roads. Has anyone any further information, photographs or anecdotes to share? Thanks in anticipation.

Further commentary on the above image: On the left, the Palace Gates railway line crosses Station Road - the dip in the road where the bridge once stood is still visible. There is a raised pavement alongside. The bridge was demolished in 1960.' This in turn leads down to the junction with the High Road and Lordship Lane which is dominated by the landmark dome of Wood Green Public Library. Gifted by The Andrew Carnegie Foundation and opening in 1907, the Library and the adjacent parade of shops are now occupied by Haringey Council’s River Park House office complex. Tudor House & Tudor Chambers sits on the corner of River Park Road and Station Road. The tram sheds look far more extensive than the modern bus depot.

Opposite the Library, The Nags Head Inn faces Spouter’s Corner (now covered by the cinema complex). The later Underground station is conspicuous by its absence. The public Gladstone Gardens lines the west side of the High Road in the lower half of the picture, and these back onto the private grounds of The Elms – a detached Victorian pile with outhouses all later developed under the Broadway Parade.

Following the trams back north along the High Road just past the tram depot, The Three Jolly Butchers Hotel sat on the corner of Watson’s Road. This former coaching inn dating from 1781 was given a gaudy late Victorian makeover, the lush carpets, flock wallpaper, cut glass mirrors, lanterns, cupola’s and alcohol all offering a refuge from the often poor accommodation & harsh employment of the time. The incline leading up to the Bounds Green Road took its name from the pub – Jolly Butchers Hill. The site is now occupied by the Monaghan's Tavern pub on the corner of a tired office block.

North of Watsons Road, the Printers’ Almshouses are visible with the Bounds Green Road curving round to the left. This site is now occupied by BT’s brutalist Greenriding House mechanical switching center (prime real estate surely ripe for development in the computerised age) . St Michael’s Church is just out of shot to the top-right.