It is a complex of 7-storey red-brick Victorian Mansion blocks, which have the same name as the street. The blocks are surrounded by lawns and there is a small garden of trees and shrubs in the middle of the street.

In 1855 William Brinkley of Hanover Square built No. 25 Addison Road, near St Barnabas Church, for William Reid. Reid was involved in various transactions on the estate, but he bought No. 25 as his own residence. It was later known as Oak Lodge. In 1862 the house was bought by James McHenry, a railway speculator, who made an abortive attempt to buy the whole estate from Lady Holland before she sold to the Earl of Ilchester. He did buy the freehold of Oak Lodge.

In about 1900, some speculative builders, William Henry and Edward James Jones, of Victoria Street Westminster, bought Oak Lodge. They knocked down the house and filled in the Moat’s medieval ponds which had survived as an ornamental lake.

On the site they began the construction of Oakwood Court which was to be a series of 7-storey mansion blocks in red brick. It took decades for all the blocks to be built. The original designs were by William Hunt an architect from Kensington. But the plans for Nos. 31-62 Oakwood Court, which were built in about 1928-30, were by Richardson and Gill.

The flats themselves have as many as 4 bedrooms and can be very large indeed. They make ideal family flats. A major refurbishment of the blocks and the flats has recently been carried out.

There is a more modern development of flats and houses on the corner of the street, which is called Manderley.


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