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To the west, next-door to Woodlands House, was Westcombe Manor, former family seat of the Ballards, the Lambardes, Sir Theophilus Biddulph ( 1612 – 1683 ; see also Biddulph baronets ), and, later, of shipowner and timber merchant Thomas Brocklebank.

The original house was rebuilt in 1723 by Sir Gregory Page, and let to tenants who included Lavinia Fenton, Dowager Duchess of Bolton, who died at the house in 1760.

The building was demolished in 1855, having earlier ( 1796 ) been described in Daniel Lysons ' Environs of London: