18-30, WINDMILL GREEN
18-30, WINDMILL GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245416
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 18-30, WINDMILL GREEN
- Statutory Address:
- 18-30, WINDMILL GREEN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245416
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 18-30, WINDMILL GREEN
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18-30, WINDMILL GREEN
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 18-30, 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 34060 91315
Details
TM 39 SW DITCHINGHAM WIND MILL GREEN
1898/6/10010 Nos. 18-30 (Consec)
II
Terrace of houses, forming a composition around a green with Nos 1-9, 10-17, 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 bedrooms, 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 18-30 have three-light casements, with wide central panes, on first floor, and on ground floor a full length casement, with central transom at left, a porch with glazed doors and side lights with deep central transoms, with a flat canopy supported on slender steel columns, and a low patterned steel infill panel, with trelliswork at right, running over the ground floor cloakroom window, and a boarded store door, with glazed panel at right. 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: TM3406091315
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471705
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North West and South Norfolk, (1962), 135-136
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
Architectural Review in October, Vol. 741, (1958), 229-230
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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