146 BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM. 
On the western side of the road, and opposite ‘‘ Annable’s,”’ is 
a field, also belonging to the Leathersellers, called ‘‘ Priestfield,” 
which, in the 15th century, belonged to the Walter Bronger above 
mentioned. Stretching up the slope are the grounds of the house 
now named The Manor House. In a view published in 1838, and 
reproduced in Plate 68, it is called Perry Hill House. The house 
appears to be of early Georgian date with later additions. In 1723 
the estate belonged to Mr. Richard Brooke, and in the early part 
of the 19th century the house was the residence of the Rev. P. A. 
French, m.a., of Sydenham. It now belongs to A. W. Marriott, 
Esq. 
PLaTe 68.—PeRRY HILL House (MANOR Howse), 1838. 
The house latterly known as Perry Hill House came next to 
The Manor House. It was pulled down about tgoo, and a row of 
small villas erected on the site. The footpath, which here runs to 
Woolston Road, is an old right-of-way leading by the side of 
two meadows known as Upper and Lower Hawkes, now nursery 
ground. They belong to the Leathersellers’ Company. The ground 
next to this footway is marked in plans of 1723 as ‘‘ The White 
Hart.” This may possibly be the old house still standing thereon, 
now called Ratcliffe Cottage. Another old house near the foot- 
path, in which Charles Mackay is said to have lived, has been 
pulled down. Next to Ratcliffe Cottage is ‘“‘Ivy Wall,” an old 
