10-17, WINDMILL GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245415
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: 10-17, WINDMILL GREEN
Statutory Address:: 10-17, WINDMILL GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245415
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: 10-17, WINDMILL GREEN
Statutory Address 1:: 10-17, WINDMILL GREEN

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 10-17, WINDMILL GREEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Norfolk
District:: South Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Ditchingham
National Grid Reference:: TM 34069 91250

Details

TM 39 SW DITCHINGHAM WIND MILL GREEN

1898/6/10009 Nos. 10-17 (consec) II

Terrace of houses, forming a composition around a green with Nos 1-9 and 18-30, and with Nos 12-20 Thwaite Road (qv). Built by the former Loddon Rural District Council, 1947-49, architects Tayler and Green. Two storeys, colourwashed 'wire cut' bricks in varied colours over a black tarred plinth, orange pantile roof, red 'wirecut' chimney stacks with pitched concrete copings and red clay pots. Wide frontage plans, 30-33 feet (9-10 metres) with three and four bedrooms (Nos 10-17), single or dual aspect according to orientation, with recessed porches and stores creating a through route from front to back without passing through the living rooms, a plan evolved by the architects to overcome the difficulties associated with the traditional 'tunnel' backs of terraces. The Windmill Green housing was the first to break away from the almost universal use of semi-detached types of the pre-war period. Standard steel casement windows, some now replaced with UPVC but with the Saul-division modules of the originals retained. Each house frontage defined by projecting cover panels over the cavity party walls. Nos 10-17 have multiple light steel casement windows, 2:1:4:3 on first floor and 2:4:1 more closely spaced on ground floor. Broad recessed porch, with entrance to left, and store ahead. Light steel railings along front of porch, with trellis panel to left. These simple designs, with their elegant proportions and concern for detail marked this scheme out as an exemplar from its inception. The informal layout of the housing blocks around a broad tapering green south of Thwaite Road was seen as a recreation of the best of vernacular design, allied to the social purpose of post-war rural housing. The shared pedestrian/vehicular access to the garage court in the south-west corner of the scheme was an original feature, and required a departure from Ministry housing standards. The scheme was illustrated in the Ministry of Health Housing Manual, 1949, and in 1950 won one of the MOH Housing Medals. While the planning of the individual houses is of special interest, there are no internal features of special merit. Source: (Architect and Building News, 4 July 1947: 9-15; AR CXXIV (741) October 1958: 229-230; Buildings of England: North West and South Norfolk: 135-136; AA Journal, Apri11960: Tayler: 176-178; RIBA Journal, October 1947: 607-609).

Listing NGR: TM3406991250

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 471704
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North West and South Norfolk, (1962), 135-136
'Architectural Review' in October, , Vol. 741, (1958), 229-230
'Architect and Building News' in 4 July, (1947), 9-15
'Architectural Association Journal' in April, (1960), 176-178
'RIBA Journal' in October, (1947), 607-609

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.