Mansion houses of Walthamstow once home to London's merchants and gentry
Walthamstow’s streets are lined with Victorian and 20th century buildings, making it difficult to imagine it as the quiet rural corner of Essex that it once was. The area was popular with London merchants and the gentry who built large mansions with spacious gardens as country retreats in the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries. Several impressively grand houses were located along Hoe Street, where much land there south of Marsh Street (now High Street) was owned by the Conyers family. Grosvenor House, built c.1600 by Tristram Conyers, was rebuilt by the Grosvenor family who acquired it...
Source: thisislocallondon.co.uk