42, Holders Road

No. 42 on Holders Road is an experimental smallholder's dwelling built between 1919 and 1920 by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research for the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, with W.R. Jaggard as the supervising architect. The building features chalk concrete blockwork on brick and flint sills, topped with a plain tiled roof. It is two storeys tall and has an L-plan layout, with a single storey wing at the rear and a roof that sweeps down over the entrance at the front. The entrance has a 20th-century door, and the windows are timber paned with brick sills and a tiled hood supported by a soldier course. There are two brick stacks and wide open-raftered eaves. The walls are made from pre-formed dense chalk concrete blocks measuring 9 inches by 12 inches by 18 inches, consisting of 12 parts crushed chalk to 1 part cement, moulded using a 'Dri-crete' machine and finished with limewash. The ground floor is suspended. This house is part of the second group of experimental homes designed to promote cost savings through the use of local materials and innovative construction methods.