The Norbury Estate originated as a

London County Council cottage estate London County Council cottage estates are estates of council houses, built by London County Council, in the main between 1918 and 1939. Council-built housing The City of London Corporation built tenements in the Farringdon Road in 1865, but this ...

constructed between 1901 and 1920 at

Norbury Norbury is an area of south London. It shares the postcode London SW16 with neighbouring Streatham. Norbury is south of Charing Cross. Etymology The name Norbury derives from ''North Burh'', (North Borough). Some local histories note tha ...

in what is now the north of the

London Borough of Croydon The London Borough of Croydon () is a London borough in south London, part of Outer London. It covers an area of . It is the southernmost borough of London. At its centre is the historic town of Croydon from which the borough takes its name; ...

. It was declared a conservation area in 2008. The site was a former

brickfield A brickfield is a field or other open site where bricks are made. Land may be leased by an owner to a brickmaster, by whom the manufacture of bricks may be conducted. Historically, the topsoil was typically removed and the clay beneath was str ...

, and the clay recovered was fired to make bricks for this estate and

Totterdown Fields Totterdown Fields was the first London County Council cottage estate built between 1901 and 1911 It contained 1244 individual houses built over . The estate was designated a conservation area, on 19 September 1978. Context It was the first Lon ...

. The estate was influenced by

Ebenezer Howard Sir Ebenezer Howard (29 January 1850 – 1 May 1928) was an English urban planner and founder of the garden city movement, known for his publication '' To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform'' (1898), the description of a utopian city in whi ...

Garden city movement The garden city movement was a 20th century urban planning movement promoting satellite communities surrounding the central city and separated with greenbelts. These Garden Cities would contain proportionate areas of residences, industry, and ...

and the

Arts and Crafts A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by one’s hand or by using only simple, non-automated re ...

movement, with high quality external detailing and an open setting with privet hedges, front gardens and wide grass verges.

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The estate is in the

, just west of the A23 and south of

Norbury Station Norbury railway station is a National Rail station in the Norbury area of the London Borough of Croydon in south London. It is on the Brighton Main Line, down the line from . The station is operated by Southern, which also provides all train s ...

. It is bounded by Palmers Road, Darcy Road, Northborough Road and Tylecroft Road.

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{{coord, 51.406722, -0.130664, display=title Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Croydon

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