RIBA exhibition:Hybrid model of Kenton Bar Estate
Avid readers:
Here as promised are my photos of this wonderful hybrid model of Kenton Bar Estate...is is not of a specific part of the estate, and clearly the model maker has been granted poetic licence to come up with this hybrid mish-match of types of housing found on the estate...so come on then, what can you identify!
Well, I guess this denotes types one, two and three as we can see two rows of split levels, three rows of shoebox houses and two cube flats, along with a Garage block row and (presumably) a second partial garage row.
ReplyDeleteThis models pretty well onto Studdon Walk/Laverlock Close area with the Hazeley Grove cube and the Dunnykirk Avenue splits on the boundaries. (Google satellite)
Indeed it maps exactly onto Studdon Walk for the number of houses and location of garages etc. Eight T2s in a row with garages at the end. (This occurs on Thirston way as well but the layouts don't match there).
ReplyDeletewell done Shades! So to clarify this is a model of Studdon Walk/Laverock place...
ReplyDeleteexcellent...
Incidently I note and wonder why they demolished the garages opposite Hazeley Way split levels?... they have not done this at Laverock...(see google satellite link above)
Hazely Way wouldn't have been a security issue like the crescents in the upper part of the estate, so it might have been just convenience to knock that row down as there was perhaps a surplus once they started charging extra for garages (if indeed they did). Maybe there weren't actually garages there in the first place? Lots more nearby of course. We now need an aerial photo from the south...
ReplyDeleteThere were definitely garages there in the first place...punters were from Hazeley Grove, not Hazeley Way as Hazeley Way was the split level T1's with their own attached garage...
ReplyDeleteI must admit that if there hadn't been garages there in the first place, I probably would have wondered about that at the time seeing as how all the T1's apart from Gunnerston had them opposite.
ReplyDeleteIt is probably a very arbitrary reason why that one went, such as having the least number of privately owned ones in the block so being the lowest number having to be reallocated.