Where was Thurlow Place, Lower Norwood?

[Miss-Shelf]

I'm looking forward to the urban75 trip to the old Thurlow Place with a live video link to FernandoJorge

 

[Puddy_Tat]

It seems that 242 could be the last remaining house from the old Thurlow Place, do you think it could be from that date?
Also, curiously, number 242 is +100 from the 142 Norwood Road where he lived. Could it be that the numbers were added +100 and this one is in fact where William lived? That would be incredible.
Is it possible to know how the numbers changed?

THANKS!!!!

242 is a listed building ('listed status' gives buildings protection from demolition / alterations) - more here - says it's early to mid 19th century, so probably the only survivor of Thurlow Place.

Some streets have been re-numbered at one time or another, either because too many new buildings have been built to make it work (if it's just one or two, for example a big house being replaced with a few smaller ones, they usually use A, B, C etc at the end of a number, rather than re-number everything) - but some streets had to be. And at one time streets were numbered 1, 2, 3 up one side of the road then down the other side - most got re-numbered to what's now standard in England of even numbers one side, odd numbers the other - although there's a handful that didn't.)

I've attached the page from the 1896 London Suburbs Directory that has all of (the West Norwood bit of) Norwood Road

I'd say that current 242 is nearer the middle of the row of houses (possibly 4th from the north) that had been Thurlow Place which became 126 to 142. 142 would have been closer to York Road (now York Hill), and now demolished / redeveloped. If it had just had 100 added to the number, that would probably have been chance rather than intent.

1950s OS map shows the individual house numbers, 1897 map doesn't.