Totterdown Fields

Totterdown Fields
1913 plan of the estate
Location Wandsworth, London
Coordinates 51°26′13″N 0°09′45″W / 51.4370°N 0.1626°W / 51.4370; -0.1626Coordinates: 51°26′13″N 0°09′45″W / 51.4370°N 0.1626°W / 51.4370; -0.1626
Status conservation area (19 September 1978)
Area 38 acres (15 ha)
Units 1244 houses
Constructed 1901 to 1911
Construction
Authority London County Council
Style Cottage Estate
Influenced by Garden city movement, Arts and Crafts movement
Governing
Body		 Wandsworth Conservation & Design Group

Totterdown Fields was the first London County Council cottage estate built between 1901 and 1911 It contained 1244 individual houses built over 38 acres (15 ha). The estate was designated a conservation area, on the 19 September 1978.

Context

LCC Cottage estates 1918–1939
Estate name Area No of dwellings Population 1938 Population density
Pre-1914
Norbury1121886719.8 per acre (49/ha)
Old Oak32736351923 per acre (57/ha)
Totterdown Fields391262—32.4 per acre (80/ha)
Tower Gardens
White Hart Lane		9878359368 per acre (20/ha)
1919–1923
Becontree277025769[lower-alpha 1]1156529.3 per acre (23/ha)
Bellingham25226731200410.6 per acre (26/ha)
Castelnau51644285112.6 per acre (31/ha)
Dover House Estate
Roehampton Estate		147121253838.2 per acre (20/ha)
1924–1933
Downham60070963003211.8 per acre (29/ha)
Mottingham2022337900911.6 per acre (29/ha)
St Helier82590683987711 per acre (27/ha)
Watling38640341911010.5 per acre (26/ha)
Wormholt68783407811.5 per acre (28/ha)
1934–1939
Chingford[lower-alpha 2]2171540—7.1 per acre (18/ha)
Hanwell (Ealing)1401587673211.3 per acre (28/ha)
Headstone Lane142n.a5000
Kenmore Park58654207811.3 per acre (28/ha)
Thornhill
(Royal Borough of Greenwich)		21380159818.1 per acre (45/ha)
Whitefoot Lane (Downham)49n.an.a.
Source:*Yelling, J.A. (1995). "Banishing London's slums: The interwar cottage estates" (PDF). Transactions. London and Middlesex Archeological Society. 46: 167–173. Retrieved 19 December 2016. Quotes: Rubinstein, 1991, Just like the country.
  1. ↑ Source says 2589- transcription error
  2. ↑ Part of a larger PRC estate around Huntsman Road

It was the first London County Council cottage estate built between 1901 and 1911 containing 1244 individual houses built over 38 acres (15 ha). It was influenced by Ebenezer Howard's Garden city movement and the Arts and Crafts movement.[1] The principal architect was Ernest Stone Collins.[2]

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References

Notes

  1. ↑ Wandsworth Conservation & Design Group 2008, p. 9.
  2. ↑ Survey of London Monograph & 17.

Bibliography

  • "The Totterdown Fields Estate, Tooting: 'Architectural design of a peculiarly rational and elegant kind'". Municipal Dreams. Municipal Dreams in Housing, London. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  • "Totterdown Fields Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Strategy". Wandsworth Conservation & Design Group. 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  • Burnett, John (1986). A social history of housing : 1815–1985 (2nd e. ed.). New York: Methuen. ISBN 0416367801.
  • Hobhouse, Hermione, ed. (1991). "The County Hall competition" [County Hall]. Survey of London Monograph. London: British History Online (17): 14–25. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
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