  Slade Hall
has occupied this site on Slade Lane for more than
600 years. Prior to the reign of Elizabeth I it
belonged to a family who adopted the name Slade.
Apparently the term slade referred to a valley and
the area around the house was originally called
Milkwall Slade. At the time of Elizabeth I's reign,
a family called Siddalls first leased the hall and
its estate for £44 and soon after bought it outright
for a further £10. It remained in the hands of the
Siddal's for over 300 years. There is a
gravestone on St John's churchyard not far from the
house that is dedicated to members of the Siddall
family
In 1903, the Siddalls sold the land and the Hall to the London and North Western Railway. Since the railway had bisected their property and ran close by the house, it was then far from a "des res". John Siddall stayed on in the Hall for a further 8 years on a lease from the railway but in 1911, Dr. C. R. Brown took over the lease and used the building as his surgery. Eventually the railway, faced with increasing maintenance cost sold the Hall and today it is a private residence.  Today the
building is Grade II Listed and described by English
Heritage as a small manor house with the date 1585 over the doorway. The house
has been enlarged, restored and altered over the
years. It has a timber frame on a stone plinth and has brick
additions to rear.
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