Numbers 43-67 And Attached Court Of 6 Garages

A row of patio houses built between 1963 and 1966, designed by David Randall and Peter Parkes of Peter Phippen and Associates for Michael Baily and the Cockaigne Housing Group. The houses are constructed with black stained weatherboarding, vertically boarded walls, and deep horizontally boarded fascias. They feature timber framing with Douglas fir glazed screens and windows, alongside fair-faced dense concrete block crosswalls, and flat roofs. The design comprises staggered, plain, narrow-frontage, single-storey houses, ranging from one to four bedrooms, incorporating internal patios. These houses were part of a pioneering group, alongside numbers 23-41 and 69-79, and represent the first in a series of remarkable schemes by the practice. The design concept, influenced by Danish examples and research at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, utilized a two-bay plan allowing for variations in bedroom numbers and the inclusion of one or more internal patios to maximize light and ventilation. Built by the Cockaigne Housing Group on a site allocated by Hatfield Development Corporation, the scheme received an Architectural Design Project Award in 1964.