Greenhill Gardens, London Gardens Online There is access from Pricklers Hill and Greenhill Park.
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Willenhall House was located to the south of Chipping Barnet on the borders of Hertfordshire and Middlesex, in what is now north London, on the east side of the Great North Road in the section of the road known as Pricklers Hill. On the same side, slightly to the north, was Greenhill Park house and estate, formerly known as Pricklers, a large estate of which Willenhall had been a part until it was separated in the late 18th century.
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Designs for Willenhall House, Pricklers Hill, BarnetDesigns for Willenhall House. RIBA architecture.com Retrieved 11 August 2020. Higgs was a partner in Barber & Company, tea merchants of London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Bristol."The New Lord Mayor", The Penny Illustrated Paper, 12 November 1887, p. 308.
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Gate posts at the western end of Willenhall Avenue where it joins the Great North Road (Pricklers Hill) with Willenhall Court on the right The house was demolished in 1890 and the site built over.Designs for Willenhall House. RIBA architecture.com Retrieved 5 August 2020.
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On Dame Margaret's death in 1713 she left Pricklers to her son Marsh Woolfe, although he was then only thirteen years of age. Until he came of age, the estate was administered on his behalf by the executors of the will, namely Margaret Nicholl (Dame Margaret's daughter by a previous marriage) and John Godden Woolfe (Sir John Woolfe's son by a previous marriage).Will of Dame Margaret Woolfe,September 4th 1712 National Archives At that time the house was always called Pricklers by the family. Marsh Woolfe in turn left his estate in 1748 to his half-nephew by blood Thomas Brand of The Hoo, the son of Dame Margaret Woolfe's daughter Margaret.
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The park is the small surviving part of large country estate known as Pricklers, named after a medieval family called Prittle. The estate was owned by the descendants of John Marsh, passing to Margaret Marsh when her father Captain William Marsh died. She married firstly John Nicholl, having a daughter by this marriage also called Margaret, and as a widow in 1694 married John Woolfe, soon to be knighted. Sir John and Dame Margaret Woolfe had issue of three daughters and a son Marsh Woolfe.
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Thomas Brand (senior) (c. 1717 – 1770), was an English country landowner of The Hoo, Kimpton, Hertfordshire and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1741 to 1770. Brand was the only son of Thomas Brand and his wife Margaret Nicholl, daughter of John Nicholl of Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire and Margaret Marsh, heiress to a property known as Pricklers, in Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire (now known as Greenhill Gardens,East Barnet). He was educated at Eton College (1728) and probably Queens’ College, Cambridge (1735).
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Willenhall House was a house and estate located to the south of Chipping Barnet, on the borders of Hertfordshire and Middlesex, in what is now north London. It was designed by John Buonarotti Papworth in 1829 for the East Indies merchant Thomas Wyatt to replace an existing house on a piece of land that was once part of the ancient Pricklers (later Greenhill) estate. Wyatt named it after Willenhall in the English West Midlands, the place of his birth. The house was demolished in 1890 and the site developed for housing over the following decades.
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From 1834 to 1848, the house was let to Adolph Leopold Pfeil, a London ironmonger, and later to a Mr Harris, the brewer Charles Addington Hanbury, and a Mr Morris. In 1862, the house was sold to a Mr Simpson, and a few years later to Sir John Peter Grant, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal and Governor of Jamaica. Grant expanded the estate by purchasing 10 acres of land adjacent to Pricklers Hill. He sold the house after succeeding to the Grant family estate on the death of his older brother, and the house came into the ownership of T. G. Waterhouse, who later sold it to the tea merchant William Alpheus Higgs, who served as sheriff of London and Middlesex.
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