The Perry Oaks main building was a ’most handsome redbrick Elizabethan farmhouse’. It was mentioned (as ’Perry’) in a rental dated 1337.

Perry Oaks had a gate onto Heathrow Road and a gate onto Tithe Barn Lane and was almost be regarded as separate from Heath Row. At Perry Oaks, another road - Oaks Road - led to Stanwell village.

At the end of its days, it was occupied by Mr S. Whittington, from an old local farming family. Perry Oaks had some old barns, a dovecote and also a duck pond. It was considered the best of the many farmsteads of Heath Row

With land sold by the Whittingtons, the Perry Oaks Sludge Works was opened in 1936 by Middlesex County Council. This was 200 acres of land occupied by lagoons in which sludge was allowed to settle under gravity. The lagoons were destroyed in the late 1990s to make way for Heathrow Terminal 5 but the works had become a site of some scientific importance. A large number of wading birds were being attracted to the lagoons.

Perry Oaks, due to its westerly position, slightly post-dated the rest of the Heathrow demolition, holding out until the late 1940s.



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