Matlock Road and Sutherland House, seen from the Coventry Canal
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Matlock Road and Sutherland House, seen from the Coventry Canal
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 26 Aug 2021
Matlock Road and its neighbour Brooklyn Road are a pair of dead-end streets that form part of a block of Coventry housing developed from 1901 in an area bounded by the canal, Foleshill Road and Cash's textile factory (the 'Hundred Houses'). Many of the red brick houses have now been given an external insulating cladding to improve thermal efficiency. Behind the row of houses can be seen Sutherland House, built in the early 1930s as part of the Courtaulds textile factory and now converted into offices. See Fry, D & Smith, A, The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018, p19.
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Image Location
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52.422988
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-1.506304