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Gates between Higher Green and The Green
This pair of gates divide Higher Green from The Green: the latter is a private residential estate road, the former is a public road. Access can only be obtained to The Green off Longdown Lane North: the gates prevent through traffic except on foot or cycle.
Image: © Hugh Craddock
Taken: 11 Jan 2009
0.07 miles
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The Green
A private estate road on the east side of Epsom.
Image: © Hugh Craddock
Taken: 11 Jan 2009
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Houses by Higher Green (off Longdown Lane North)
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.
Image: © Stefan Czapski
Taken: 18 Jan 2018
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Higher Green
Open space in a residential road known as "Higher Green", laid out in the 1920s and 1930s across former fields by local builder Ernest Harwood. The houses are in a 'tudorbethan' style, with details associated with Surrey vernacular.
Image: © Hugh Craddock
Taken: 11 Jan 2009
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The Green at the junction of Longdown Lane North
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 1 Jun 2014
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Cyclepath at The Green
Cyclepath/bridlepath 43 (from Albert Road in Epsom to the Cheam Road at Howell Hill) here crosses The Green, a private estate on the east side of Epsom.
Image: © Hugh Craddock
Taken: 11 Jan 2009
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House in Higher Green (off Longdown Lane North)
A house that is pretty typical of many thousands built 'between the wars' as the Surrey suburbs grew outwards beyond older centres such as Wimbledon, Kingston and Croydon.
The builder who developed The Green and Higher Green* was clearly concerned to produce a picturesque effect - using designs inspired by local rural tradition. A glance at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5656676 shows that he had a variety of designs in his pattern book, and avoided using the same design on adjacent plots. Notice in particular the house on the right in that picture, which shares its gable design with the house in the picture above. Further variety was introduced by 'handing' - the gable on the larger house is on the left, but on the right in the smaller.
* Hugh Craddock gives his name as Ernest Harwood: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1116038
Image: © Stefan Czapski
Taken: 18 Jan 2018
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Windmill Close - Epsom
Detached houses near Wallace Fields Junior School.
Image: © James Emmans
Taken: 6 May 2020
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The Green
The Green, a private estate on the east side of Epsom, seen from the crossing of cyclepath/bridlepath 43. The Green is part of the Ewell Downs Road Conservation Area, developed from the late 1920s onwards by a local builder, Ernest Harwood, in a vernacular style. An 'article 4' direction means that local residents cannot make even the most minor changes to their homes (such as fitting new windows) without planning permission.
Image: © Hugh Craddock
Taken: 22 Feb 2009
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Alexandra Recreation Ground
The recreation ground is bisected by a cyclepath/bridleway (Epsom & Ewell 43).
Image: © Hugh Craddock
Taken: 11 Jan 2009
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