NUMBERS 2-26 WITH RETAINING WALLS

NUMBERS 2-26 WITH RETAINING WALLS, 2-26, MINSTEAD GARDENS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246045
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 2-26 WITH RETAINING WALLS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 2-26 WITH RETAINING WALLS, 2-26, MINSTEAD GARDENS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246045
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 2-26 WITH RETAINING WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 2-26 WITH RETAINING WALLS, 2-26, MINSTEAD GARDENS

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 2-26 WITH RETAINING WALLS, 2-26, MINSTEAD GARDENS

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County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Wandsworth (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 21713 74032

Details

TQ 21 74 SE WANDSWORTH, LB MINSTEAD GARDENS (west side)

1207/18/10067 Nos. 2-26 (Even) - with retaining walls

GV II

Staggered terrace of thirteen bungalows for old-age pensioners. Designed 1952-3; built 1957-8 by the LCC's Architect's Department Housing Department, Colin Lucas Architect in Charge, J A Partridge, W G Howell, J A W Killick, S F Amis, J R Galley and R Stout job architects. Brick and concrete cross-wall construction with roughcast infill panels; flat roofs counterbalanced by high concrete stacks that give the group great character. The rectangle of each single-storey unit incorporates recessed porches to front and back. The glazing and panels under windows renewed in UPVC, to a pattern resembling the original. Flush timber doors retain their original design. Storage area, formerly a fuel store, incorporated in front wall. Retaining walls enclose a small garden area to front, at rear the open grassed area is part of the group's composition. Interiors comprise large single room with fireplace, linen cupboard and bed recess; kitchen and bathrooom not of special interest. The groups of old people's dwellings are a charming feature of the Alton West development. Their small scale is a deliberate counterpoise to the great slabs and point blocks around, a contrast further exploited in the quirky, unexpected chimneys. This combination of very large and very tiny buildings exemplifies the concept of 'mixed development', with houses and flats to suit all ages and needs, of which Alton West is the ultimate expression. These bungalows also form a strong group with the C18 listed Mount Clare behind. 'Their informal tight grouping and open roadways achieve almost the character of the original parklands, yet these tiny units take their place exceedingly well with the tall blocks across the spine road and on the higher slope' (Prefabrication, November 1958).

Listing NGR: TQ2171374032

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Legacy System number:: 472043
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bruckmann, H, Lewis, D L, New Housing in Great Britain, (1960)
'Architecture and Building' in June, (1959), 222-7
'Prefabrication' in November, (1958), 594

Legal

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