Dorset Estate

The Dorset Estate is a post-war Modernist housing estate in Bethnal Green[1][2], London.

Dorset Estate facade.

Design

The estate was designed by Skinner, Bailey & Lubetkin and completed in 1957. The same architects designed the nearby Sivill House, 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.[3]

Altogether there are 266 homes on the estate.

References
  1. https://communitycatalogue.towerhamlets.gov.uk/marketplace/cat/vendor/260
  2. http://www.bellphillips.com/project/tower-hamlets-housing/
  3. Love London Council Housing, http://www.lovelondoncouncilhousing.com/2012/01/dorset-estate-tower-hamlets.html

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