Looking up Almeida Street

After the building of the Literary & Scientific Institution and Nos. 1-4 Almeida Street in 1837-8, the remainder of the estate was let as market gardens until 1846, when the Manor of Barnsbury granted licence to demise their copyhold property to Stephen & Josiah Wilson for up to 99 years “in consideration of building good and substantial dwelling houses of not less than the fourth rate or class, each house fronting Wellington Street not to be of a less annual value than £40 and each of the other houses not to be of less annual value than £25”.

The four streets then named Wellington Street (now Almeida Street), Hardinge Street (now named Battishill Street), Napier Terrace and Waterloo Terrace were laid out and building leases granted on the north side of Almeida Street (Nos. 17–28) in 1846, both sides of Battishill Street (1846–52), the north side of Waterloo Terrace (1851–52), the south side of Almeida Street (Nos. 5–16) (1852), parts of Napier Terrace (1853–54) and four houses (later numbered 19–22) on the south side of Waterloo Terrace, originally named 1-4 Wellesley Terrace (1854).

The passageway at the end of Almeida Street through to Milner Square was created when the east side of the latter was built (also by William Spencer Dove) in 1844.