DOI Artikel:
Jones, Sydney R.; Forrest, George Topham [Ill.]: The Roehampton Estate: illustrated by drawings prepared in the office of the architect to the London county council
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THE ROEHAMPTON ESTATE
housing of the working classes. Of the remainder, part is to be let on lease
for the erection of houses by private owners, while positions are reserved
for open spaces, a church, and elementary and secondary schools.
The plan of the Estate makes an irregular four-sided figure, the east and
west sides of which are much longer than those north and south (p. 39). As
no old roads were in existence, a main way of communication through the
centre of the Estate was decided upon—now known as Dover House Road
—and from this axial line the scheme has been developed east and west.
For the present, attention is being concentrated on the completion of the
northern portion. It is pleasantly approached from Upper Richmond
Road through a belt of trees that formed the boundary of the original
park. Behind the trees will be the shopping centre, to be built by private
enterprise under the sanction of the Council. The main way runs due south,
and from it other roads lead east and west. Important road crossings have
been emphasised in a manner that makes them very interesting points of
the scheme. At the intersection of Dover House Road and Huntingfield
Road, for example, the houses have been set back to the line of an octagon
and, when the work is complete, the open spaces between the roads and the
houses will be turfed and lined with hedges and trees, as is shewn by the
illustration on page 41. Another similar treatment is under construction
where Elmshaw and Hawkesbury Roads join Dover House Road. At this
point blocks of maisonettes are being built round two rectangular lawns, to
be screened from the road later by rows of small trees, and the actual
maisonettes will be reached by paths of crazy stone paving bordering the
greens. The plan on page 42 gives this section of the lay-out in detail, in
conjunction with which the drawing reproduced on page 43 should be
studied, as it shews the effect of the finished work at the junction of Dover
House Road and Elmshaw Road. The two features described above are
typical of many that abound on the Estate, and they serve to shew what
care has been taken by Mr.
Topham Forrest and his
assistants to secure a pleasant
environment suited to the
everyday life of ordinary
people. In this connection
it may be stated that on the
site reserved for the housing
of the working classes, fifty-
two acres have been allotted
for cottages and cottage gar-
dens, eight acres for schools,
ARCHWAY AND PUBLIC PATH THROUGH BLOCK IN HUNTINGFIELD ROAD shops and an institute, and
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housing of the working classes. Of the remainder, part is to be let on lease
for the erection of houses by private owners, while positions are reserved
for open spaces, a church, and elementary and secondary schools.
The plan of the Estate makes an irregular four-sided figure, the east and
west sides of which are much longer than those north and south (p. 39). As
no old roads were in existence, a main way of communication through the
centre of the Estate was decided upon—now known as Dover House Road
—and from this axial line the scheme has been developed east and west.
For the present, attention is being concentrated on the completion of the
northern portion. It is pleasantly approached from Upper Richmond
Road through a belt of trees that formed the boundary of the original
park. Behind the trees will be the shopping centre, to be built by private
enterprise under the sanction of the Council. The main way runs due south,
and from it other roads lead east and west. Important road crossings have
been emphasised in a manner that makes them very interesting points of
the scheme. At the intersection of Dover House Road and Huntingfield
Road, for example, the houses have been set back to the line of an octagon
and, when the work is complete, the open spaces between the roads and the
houses will be turfed and lined with hedges and trees, as is shewn by the
illustration on page 41. Another similar treatment is under construction
where Elmshaw and Hawkesbury Roads join Dover House Road. At this
point blocks of maisonettes are being built round two rectangular lawns, to
be screened from the road later by rows of small trees, and the actual
maisonettes will be reached by paths of crazy stone paving bordering the
greens. The plan on page 42 gives this section of the lay-out in detail, in
conjunction with which the drawing reproduced on page 43 should be
studied, as it shews the effect of the finished work at the junction of Dover
House Road and Elmshaw Road. The two features described above are
typical of many that abound on the Estate, and they serve to shew what
care has been taken by Mr.
Topham Forrest and his
assistants to secure a pleasant
environment suited to the
everyday life of ordinary
people. In this connection
it may be stated that on the
site reserved for the housing
of the working classes, fifty-
two acres have been allotted
for cottages and cottage gar-
dens, eight acres for schools,
ARCHWAY AND PUBLIC PATH THROUGH BLOCK IN HUNTINGFIELD ROAD shops and an institute, and
47