Editing Streatham (section)

===Urbanisation===
Development accelerated after the opening of [[Streatham Hill railway station]] on the [[West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway]] in 1856. The other two railway stations followed within fifteen years.
Some estates, such as ''Telford Park'' to the west of Streatham Hill, were spaciously planned with facilities like [[tennis]] clubs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telfordpark.plus.com/pages/telfordpark.html|title=Telford Park Estate|first=Vanessa|last=Stopford}}</ref> Despite the local connections to the Dukes of Bedford, there is no link to the contemporary [[Bedford Park, London|Bedford Park]] in west London. Another generously sized development was Roupell Park, the area near Christchurch Road promoted by the [[Roupell case|Roupell]] family. Other streets adopted more conventional suburban layouts.
Three more parish churches were built to serve the growing area, including Immanuel and St Andrew's (1854), St Peter's (1870) and St Margaret the Queen's (1889).

==== Frederick Wheeler's Terraces ====
At the end of the 19th Century the heart of the old heart of the village of Streatham was sweepingly remodelled to the architectural designs of the young local architect [[Frederick Wheeler|Frederick Wheeler FRIBA]], creating the streetscape which remains to this day.
[[File:Wheeler Dip.jpg|thumb|Frederick Wheeler's terraces, Streatham High Road, 1910]]
[[File:Wheeler dip 2.jpg|thumb|'The Dip' flanked by Wheeler's terraces, 1930s.]]
Between 1884 and 1891 a comprehensive scheme of four-storey, [[Queen Anne Revival architecture in the United Kingdom|Queen Anne Revival]] style [[Shophouse|shop houses]] was designed by Wheeler and built by the local firm Hill Brothers. Running down from the High Road as it diverges south from Mitcham Lane and past Streatham Green the parade continues, almost unbroken, to the entrance of [[Streatham railway station|Streatham Station]]. The scheme meets, visually, at the bottom of the steep hill and cross-roads known locally as 'The Dip' in a pair of matched developments named ''The Broadway'' and ''The Triangle'' on what is now Gleneagle Road. South of this junction the development continues with Wheeler's Queens Parade terrace of 1885 rising up towards the railway bridge and [[Streatham railway station|Streatham Station]].
[[File:Wheeler queens parade.jpg|thumb|The Queens Parade by Frederick Wheeler, 1920.]]
This long run of matching red-brick parades, topped with high red-brick [[Dutch gable|'Dutch gables']] and decorative chimney stacks all enlivened by decorative plasterwork, banded brickwork and multiform timber sash and tripartite [[dormer windows]], was noted by [[Pevsner Architectural Guides|Pevsner]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Streatham High Road and Streatham Hill conservation area statement |url=https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/sites/default/files/pl_CA54_streatham_high_road_streatham_hill_CAStatement.pdf |publisher=Lambeth Planning |access-date=13 February 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |title=London 2 : South. Buildings of England. |publisher=Yale |year=1983 |isbn=9780300096514}}</ref> Wheeler's comprehensive development also included ''Streatham Hall'', which served for some time as the local [[town hall]] in the early 1900s, standing at 344 Streatham High Road between 1888 and its demolition in 1980.<ref>{{Cite web |last=lambeth2017 |date=2018-02-01 |title=GLENEAGLE ROAD, STREATHAM |url=https://boroughphotos.org/lambeth/gleneagle-road-streatham-2/ |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=Landmark |language=en}}</ref>
A surviving parade of shops fronting Streatham Green on Mitcham Lane has also been ascribed to Wheeler, who contributed a large number of other buildings to the local area including the (listed) Methodist church on Riggindale Road, Sussex House on the corner of Tooting Bec Gardens and the large houses built on the Manor Park (Wheeler lived at No. 7 Rydal Road)<ref>https://www.streathamsociety.org.uk/uploads/2/2/8/6/22863074/_streatham_heritage_trail_streatham_park_cropped.pdf</ref> and Woodlands estates as well and the discreet [[electricity substation]] in a "15th century Gothic style" beside the English Martyrs Church on Mitcham Lane.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=John W. |title=Streatham Heritage Trail |date=2003 |publisher=The Streatham Society |isbn=1873520476 |url=https://www.streathamsociety.org.uk/uploads/2/2/8/6/22863074/_streatham_heritage_trail_streatham_village.pdf}}</ref>

Wheeler later went on to find fame with his [[Arts and Crafts movement|Arts & Crafts]] influenced St Pauls Studios residences for bachelor artists, on [[Talgarth Road]], Hammersmith.

There is now a mixture of buildings from all architectural eras of the past 200 years in the Streatham conservation area.