The Dorset Estate is a post-war Modernist
housing estate
A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex or housing development) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country.
Popular throughout the United States ...
in
Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green is an area in the East End of London northeast of Charing Cross. The area emerged from the small settlement which developed around the Green, much of which survives today as Bethnal Green Gardens, beside Cambridge Heath Road. By ...
, London.
Design
The estate was designed by Skinner, Bailey & Lubetkin and completed in 1957. The same architects designed the nearby
Sivill House
Sivill House is a Grade II listed 76-flat council housing block on Columbia Road in Shoreditch, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The building has 19-storeys, at a total height of .
Sivill House was designed in the Constructivist style b ...
, completed in 1962.
The estate includes two Y-shaped 11-storey blocks, George Loveless House and James Hammett House, and the lower-rise James Brine House, Robert Owen House and Arthur Wade House. The blocks are named after the
Tolpuddle Martyrs
The Tolpuddle Martyrs were six agricultural labourers from the village of Tolpuddle in Dorset, England, who, in 1834, were convicted of swearing a secret oath as members of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers. They were arrested on ...
.
[Love London Council Housing, http://www.lovelondoncouncilhousing.com/2012/01/dorset-estate-tower-hamlets.html]
Altogether there are 266 homes on the estate.
References
Housing estates in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Bethnal Green
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