Housing blocks, Alton West Estate, Roehampton
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Housing blocks, Alton West Estate, Roehampton
Image: © Jim Osley Taken: 10 Oct 2015
Series of five 'slab' blocks - Dunbridge House, Denmead House, Charcot House, Winchfield House, and Binley House - built in the 1950s to the designs of the London County Council Architects' Department. Grade II* listed - "They are the centrepiece of the Alton West estate, the LCC's most ambitious post-war development scheme and considered 'probably the finest low-cost housing development in the world' (G E Kidder Smith). It remains very highly regarded." - quoted from this https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1246040.
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Image Location
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51.453664
Longitude
-0.24671