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
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41869#0062
THE ROEHAMPTON ESTATE
ENTRANCE TO GROUND-FLOOR MAISONETTES
about thirty-nine acres for roads,
allotments, and open spaces.
Further evidence of careful
thought in laying out the land is
apparent in the disposition and
arrangement of Gibbon Walk
and Lysons Walk, linking Dover
House Road and Swinburne
Road. Each of these Walks
takes the form of a quadrangle,
or close, with a central open
green, round which the houses
are grouped. Access to the
neighbouring thoroughfares is
given from two sides of each
quadrangle by subsidiary roads,
which also continue round the
central greens. The trees that
were standing have been pre-
served, and when the newly-planted shrubs and hedges have matured,
these two Walks will be green and shady places distinguished by a certain
air of quiet seclusion. The sub-
ject of the coloured illustration
(p. 45), taken from Gibbon
Walk, represents the outlet to
Swinburne Road and some of
the completed cottages. Allot-
ments occupy a large proportion
of the north-eastern section of
the Estate, and it should be
noted that they have been
massed in two large unbroken
areas. This wise disposition is
of incalculable value inasmuch
as the open character of this part
of the site has been permanently
secured, a condition of things as
advantageous for the occupants
of the surrounding houses as it is
for the prosecution of gardening
operations. The quality of open-
ness is further enhanced by the
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ENTRANCE TO PAIR OF THREE-ROOMED COTTAGES
ENTRANCE TO GROUND-FLOOR MAISONETTES
about thirty-nine acres for roads,
allotments, and open spaces.
Further evidence of careful
thought in laying out the land is
apparent in the disposition and
arrangement of Gibbon Walk
and Lysons Walk, linking Dover
House Road and Swinburne
Road. Each of these Walks
takes the form of a quadrangle,
or close, with a central open
green, round which the houses
are grouped. Access to the
neighbouring thoroughfares is
given from two sides of each
quadrangle by subsidiary roads,
which also continue round the
central greens. The trees that
were standing have been pre-
served, and when the newly-planted shrubs and hedges have matured,
these two Walks will be green and shady places distinguished by a certain
air of quiet seclusion. The sub-
ject of the coloured illustration
(p. 45), taken from Gibbon
Walk, represents the outlet to
Swinburne Road and some of
the completed cottages. Allot-
ments occupy a large proportion
of the north-eastern section of
the Estate, and it should be
noted that they have been
massed in two large unbroken
areas. This wise disposition is
of incalculable value inasmuch
as the open character of this part
of the site has been permanently
secured, a condition of things as
advantageous for the occupants
of the surrounding houses as it is
for the prosecution of gardening
operations. The quality of open-
ness is further enhanced by the
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ENTRANCE TO PAIR OF THREE-ROOMED COTTAGES