Houses by Higher Green (off Longdown Lane North)

Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 18 Jan 2018

Quite substantial houses from the 'between-the-wars' period. While the three houses shown are basically very similar in plan, the builder has gone to some trouble to introduce a bit of variety - in the treatment of the little gabled wing that faces the street. In the house on the left this has timber framing with 'brick-nogging' as infill, while the middle house has tile-hanging - both inspired (if that's the word) by Surrey traditions. The house on the right is more eccentric - the builder has contrived what might be called a gambrel roof, though a gambrel roof normally involves one change of slope rather than two. I think I'm reminded more of Essex Image than of Surrey. The same houses appear in Hugh Craddock's Image He plainly knows the area far better than I do, and his contributions give more history.

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