Totterdown Fields was the first
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 ...
built between 1901 and 1911 It contained 1244 individual houses built over . The estate was designated a
conservation area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...
, on 19 September 1978.
Context
It was the first
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 ...
built between 1901 and 1911 in
Wandsworth
Wandsworth Town () is a district of south London, within the London Borough of Wandsworth southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan
The London Plan is the statutory spatial development strategy for the Gre ...
. The estate contains 1,244 individual houses built over . It 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 ...
's
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. The principal architect was
Ernest Stone Collins
Ernest is a given name derived from Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious". Notable people and fictional characters with the name include:
People
*Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
*Ernest, M ...
.
See also
*
Boundary Estate
The Boundary Estate is a housing development in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London.
It is positioned just inside Bethnal Green's historic parish and borough boundary with Shoreditch, which ran along ''Boundary Stre ...
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Housing estates in the London Borough of Wandsworth