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  • Ludlow Road, Brentham Garden Suburb
  • Brentham Club & Institute, opened 1913
  • Fowlers Walk, Brentham Garden Suburb

Brentham Garden Suburb

Parker & Unwin

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Meet at: Guided Walk
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The Brentham Club, 38 Meadvale Road, W5 1NP
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Parking, Refreshments, Toilets, Disabled access

Travel Information

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Nearest tube: Hanger Lane
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Nearest train: Ealing Broadway
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Bus routes: E2, E9
Britain's first co-partnership garden suburb, first houses built 1901. Parker and Unwin's plan introduced 1907, mainly Arts and Crafts style; fascinating social history.

Events

Saturday 4th September
Guided Walk
schedule Time: 10.30am to 12.30pm
group Capacity: 30
Meet at The Brentham Club for an introductory talk by one of our knowledgeable guides, followed by a walk around the estate then and back to The Club for refreshments and a chance to purchase some Brentham merchandise
Sunday 5th September
Guided Walk
schedule Time: 10.30am to 12.30pm
group Capacity: 30
Meet at The Brentham Club for an introductory talk by one of our knowledgeable guides, followed by a walk around the estate then and back to The Club for refreshments and a chance to purchase some Brentham merchandise

Design

Original design
Parker & Unwin, G L Sutcliffe, G C Pearson & others, 1901
Type
Walk/tour
Period
Edwardian

  • History

    Brentham Garden Suburb in Ealing, west London, is no ordinary group of 620 houses. The first garden suburb to be built on 'Co-partnership' principles and an inspiration for the later, larger and more famous Hampstead, it has made a mark on twentieth-century domestic architecture, town planning and social housing out of all proportion to its size. The Labour, Co-operative, Arts and Crafts, and Garden City movements are all part of the Brentham story.

    The suburb was designed to a plan by the leading garden city architects Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin, with houses, mostly in the Arts and Crafts style, by George Lister Sutcliffe and Frederic Cavendish Pearson. In 1969 Brentham Garden Suburb was designated a conservation area, with Article IV Direction added in 1974.

    Today Brentham is still a thriving community and its character and fabric have been extraordinarily well conserved compared with other small garden suburbs.

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