Cockaigne Housing Association Limited

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 frames with Douglas fir glazed screens and windows, along with fair-faced dense concrete block crosswalls and flat roofs. The design consists of staggered, single-storey houses with narrow frontages, offering variations from one to four bedrooms, each incorporating internal patios. The concept was influenced by Danish examples and research from the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. The 2-bay plan enabled numerous variations, creating houses with one or more internal patios to maximize light and ventilation. The houses were built by the Cockaigne Housing Group on a site designated by Hatfield Development Corporation and received an Architectural Design Project Award in 1964. Number 69, The Ryde, is partially owned by members of the Cockaigne Housing Group and acts as a community focal point. It includes a flat for short-term visitors and, for twenty years, housed a nursery school established by the group.