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St. Johns Road, ORPINGTON, BR5 1HX

A series of photos showing the diversity of housing in one gridsquare in outer suburbia. For others in series see http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=1905481. Any further information, such as building dates and what was on the sites before building, would be appreciated. This is St John's Road, one of the few roads in Petts Wood that had seen any development before the late 1920s.

A series of photos showing the diversity of housing in one gridsquare in outer suburbia. For others in series see http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=1905481. Any further information, such as building dates and what was on the sites before building, would be appreciated. This is Appleby Close, the most recent development in the gridsquare (2006?). In fact I only discovered it in looking at an aerial photo on Google Maps – all other aerial photos and mapping sites show it as a spinney between Buckingham Close and St Johns Road. The gate gives the road an exclusivity that hardly seems necessary given the appearance of the surrounding roads.

A series of photos showing the diversity of housing in one gridsquare in outer suburbia. For others in series see http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=1905481. Any further information, such as building dates and what was on the sites before building, would be appreciated. This is St John's Road, one of the few roads in Petts Wood that had seen any development before the late 1920s. However, the subsequent filling in of gaps over the years (as well as demolition of older stock) has left the road with a large variety of housing types, such as this small group of high pitched houses.

This 1930s road was one of the few in Petts Wood not developed on land originally purchased by Basil Scruby, the man behind the development of Petts Wood as a "garden suburb", having instead been built on land sold direct to the builders by the architect George St Pierre Harris, in whose family's land it had been held since the 1840s. Nevertheless it very much fits in with Scruby's ideal. Most of the houses were built in a "Tudor" style by Noel Rees, who was also responsible for part of Willett Way (see Image) and for The Chenies (see Image).

Most of The Covert was developed by the builder Noel Rees in the 1930s (see Image). However, a small section at the southern end was left undeveloped until the 1960s/1970s, when a couple of long single storey houses were built on the site, of which this is one.

A series of photos showing the diversity of housing in one gridsquare in outer suburbia. For others in series see http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=1905481. Any further information, such as building dates and what was on the sites before building, would be appreciated. This is St John's Road, one of the few roads in Petts Wood that had seen any development before the late 1920s. However, the subsequent filling in of gaps over the years (as well as demolition of older stock) has left the road with a large variety of housing types, such as these chalet type houses.