Numbers 14, 15 And 16 And Screen Wall Linking With Numbers 17 And 18

A terrace of three houses and an attached screen wall, built in 1951 by the former Loddon Rural District Council, designed by Tayler and Green. Number 16 has a later gable end, dated 1956, constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern with black headers and yellow brick detailing. The screen wall connects to numbers 17 and 18. The houses are built of red brick (on numbers 14 and 15) and yellow-grey brick (on number 16), with an orange pantiled roof, plain wooden bargeboards, three brick chimneystacks with pitched concrete copings and clay pots, and rainwater pipes that descend directly from the eaves without decorative swan-necks. The windows are metal casement windows; some have been replaced with upvc, with a three-light and a two-light window on the first floor. The ground floor features twin arched openings - one with a full-length casement window and the other with a projecting porch supported by light steel and a curved head. A door provides through access to the garden. Projecting concrete party wall closers define the frontages of the individual houses. The terrace faces east onto a village green and its splayed positioning complements earlier bungalows opposite. The terrace, along with numbers 11, 12 and 13, and 17 and 18, represents the second phase of village housing at Bergh Apton. An attached run of single-storey garages is located at the south end of the block. The scheme received a Civic Trust Award in 1957 and a Housing Medal in 1961, and represents a fine example of the architects' work, successfully integrating a new housing development into an existing community and utilizing the woodland setting to create a "village green."