11-13, CHURCH ROAD

TG 30 SW BERGH APTON CHURCH ROAD (South side) 1880/2/10004 Nos.11-13 (Consec.)

GV II

Terrace of three houses built by the former Loddon Rural District Council, 1951, architects Tayler and Green. Two storeys, brick - black l.h. (No 11), yellow-grey centre (No 12), red r.h. (No 13), with yellow-brown r.h. gable end and red quoins. Pantiled roof with zig-zag cut wooden bargeboards, and 3 brick chimneystacks with pitched concrete copings and clay pots. Rainwater pipes run straight from eaves without swan necks (except at l.h. where replaced). Wide frontage plans. First floor 4 windows with square module glazing and top hung casements: 2 light: 1 light: 2 light: 4 lights to each house. Ground floor three-light casements at left and recessed porch at right, recently infilled on Nos 12 and 13. Ornamental trellis, white painted timber to left of porch, now remains only on No 11. This block set back from the road frontage facing green. Access road to garage court to west. Together with Nos 14-16 and Nos 17-18 these formed the second phase of village housing at Bergh Apton. The completed scheme received a Civic Trust Award in 1957 and a Housing Medal in 1961. The scheme is a fine example of these architects' work, exemplary as a sensitive and self-contained extension to an existing community, which uses its woodland setting to great advantage to create a new `village green'.

Listing NGR: TG3050500492