The eastern part of the road is very narrow, almost like a village lane despite now being in a city suburb.
The Gardener's Arms public house,[3] at 39 Plantation Road on the corner with Leckford Place, dates from the late 1830s and has a vegetarian restaurant.
[4] The 20th-century Wyndham House, officially opened by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in 1973,[5] provides sheltered housing with 33 flats, also on a corner with Leckford Place.
[6] The Jericho Chiropractic Clinic is at 16 Plantation Road.
[7] Towards the end of his life, the diplomat and author Sir Reader Bullard (1885–1976) lived in Plantation Road.