Davy Terrace, 3-13 Low Bungay Road

Terraced bungalows built between 1962 and 1963 by Tayler and Green for the former Loddon Rural District Council as part of a housing estate for elderly persons. The bungalows are constructed of red, black, yellow-grey, and dapple brick with decorative treatment to the gable ends. They have orange and brown pantiled roofs with wooden bargeboards, brick chimneystacks with angled concrete copings and clay pots. The eaves are flush, and rainwater pipes run down without swan-necks. The plans are narrow and, due to differing orientations and aspects, the elevations show variation. A typical bungalow features a recessed entrance with a half-glazed door flanked by white-painted wooden trelliswork extending over subsidiary windows, a large three-light steel casement window, and a boarded external store with a solid glazed panel. The interiors lack features of particular merit. The Davy Place development, of which this terrace is part, exemplifies the architects’ attention to detail and use of vernacular forms without imitation. The streetscape along Davy Place is carefully composed, featuring a terrace of four bungalows along the frontage, a set-back paved area fronted by a single bungalow, a day room, and a two-storey warden’s house. The north side is balanced by the raised gable ends of other groups of bungalows to the south, with linked brick crinkle-crankle walls screening the gardens. This block is an integral element connected to numbers 1-16 and 10-15 (consecutive) Davy Place, the Common Room, numbers 5-9 (odd) High Bungay Road, and numbers 6-10 (even) Low Bungay Road. The scheme represents the architects' ‘picturesque’ approach, responding to a semi-urban setting. The development won a Ministry of Housing Medal in 1964 and a Civic Trust Award in 1965.