Numbers 1-28 Attached Screen Walls, Garages

This is a housing estate of elderly persons' bungalows, built between 1956 and 1964 for the Loddon Rural District Council, designed by Tayler and Green. It consists of four terraces with attached screen walls and garages, linked to a two-storey day room. The bungalows are single-storey and constructed of brick slip facing in dapple lights, with yellow-brown and red detailing over tarred plinths. Decorative gable ends feature projecting diaper patterns, with specific detailing including headers (number 1), dark brown and dapple light facings (number 5), the date '1959' in red headers (number 12), and a diaper pattern in red headers and stretchers (number 15). Wooden bargeboards, both plain and zig-zag cut, are present, alongside tall brick chimney stacks with pitched concrete copings and clay pots. Bungalow plans show varied frontages, with ranges of two and three-light steel casement windows and timber doors with glazed panels. Wooden trelliswork is fixed to the front elevations of several dwellings as part of the original design. The two-storey warden's house, number 14, is grouped with the single-storey day room, which turns the corner from Hollow Hill Road to Thwaite Road. The day room features a large timber-framed "picture window" projecting as a shallow bay, a glazed entrance door, and a black slate panel commemorating the architects, Tayler and Green, and the builders, Harvey and Leech. The estate is arranged in four terraces running south-west to north-east, with vehicular access at each end and pedestrian walks along the north and south. Terraces are connected by curved brick crinkle crankle walls. An electrical sub-station and two garages, facing a short cul-de-sac north of Thwaite Road, are also original features. The estate is notable for the sensitivity of its detailing, its ingenious layout, and the design quality derived from using simple, inexpensive materials. This design aims to relate each element to the overall concept and complements the nearby housing at numbers 25-39 (odd) Hollow Hill Road. The scheme received a commendation in the 1964 Housing Medal Awards.