Sun Houses, Highover Park, Amersham
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Sun Houses, Highover Park, Amersham
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 13 Sep 2018
A set of beautiful 1930s houses on a hillside setting between new and old Amersham. One was recently on the market, and this is from the estate agent's blurb :- " A stunning grade ii listed detached house designed by the renowned architectural partnership Connell & Ward, early exponents of the modernist movement in the 1930’s, strongly influenced by the French modernist Le Corbusier. There are five ‘sun houses’ built on the slopes leading to the famous High & Over House. These are believed to be amongst the first modernist houses built in Britain and have featured in books, tv programmes and journals covering significant buildings of the 20th century, together with those on Metroland immortalised in Sir John Betjeman’s poetry." The last sentence is rather disingenuous, as Betjeman was actually quite rude about these places.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.667372
Longitude
-0.606201