Southlands - Wimbledon Common east

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Post to the East Wimbledon Park, Park

Post to the south Wimbledon Tennus

Post to the west Richmond Park, Putney Vale

Post to the north Putney Heath Tibbetts


Inner Park Road

Roundacre interesting flats. 1960

Queensmere Road
21 Maxwell Fry
Southlands College. The original house, Belmont House, was built for Daniel Meinertzhagen in 1864. the College  had been founded in 1872 for the training of women teachers and  moved from Battersea in 1930 to its present site . This mid-19th century mansion had belonged to the Due de Vendome, great-grandson of King Louis Philippe of France. Many new buildings have been added. The College has been co- educational since 1965 and became part of the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education in 1975. The small historical display in the College Library includes a Coade bust of John Wesley and the library of the Wesley Historical Society.   The Roehampton Christian Community Centre, opened in 1968, serves the residents of the Alton Estate.  New buildings by Yorke, Rosenberg & Mardall. Hall completed 1953; block with lecture rooms and gymnasium 1959-62. amenities block 1966, students' union 1968, library 1972 in the grounds of a neo-Tudor house of c. 1900, an extension, with student refectory, and five small residential blocks by Yorke, Rosenberg & Mardall, 1961-3.
Queensmere Estate. GLC 1976. small houses among mature trees

Somerset Road.
Cedar Court a refreshing change. Plain staggered terraces in dark brick, and two eleven-storey towers of private flats and some linked three-storey blocks, all by the Building Design Partnership, 1966. Architectural details excellent, but layout poor, with too many internal roads
Oakfield like Cedar Court

Wimbledon Parkside
Lodge stuccoed to Albemarles, one of several relics of houses now demolished.
Tudor Lodge, Behind Fairlawn  c.1860, with ample stone dressings and turret.
Ackroyden Estate This dates from 1950-4. It was the first of the post-Second-World-War developments by the L.C.C Architect's Department to demonstrate the principle of mixed development, the mixture of low and high housing and of dwellings of different sizes on a single estate. The Ackroyden Estate and the bigger Alton Estate which followed at Roehampton are very different in their mood from Powell & Moya's essentially urban development.
Oatland Court The part of the Ackroyden Estate-  the first part to be completed and so the most well known-  has just this one tower designed by Colin Lucas. a point block of eleven storeys. T-shaped three flats to floor, the end walls brick and the sides cement-rendered with a simple pattern provided by generous balconies. No fussiness, no applied pattern-making. A good roof shape closing the top of the lift shaft. To lower buildings of two to five storeys, the blocks of maisonettes fanning out to Windlesham Grove, avoiding a rigid grid, and at the  corner a group of flats neatly turning the corner with a low link containing laundry and stores. The materials are brie with rendering, the flat roofs project slightly in the Swedish
Windmill Road
Heathfield House, early c19, with shallow bow windows,
Manor Cottage, stuccoed.
Mill House early c19,
Windmill.  Hollow post mill 1817. Well-known altered in 1893 on reconstruction as a landmark. A composite type uncommon in England. It was formerly a hollow postmill with a small body turning on a vertical post encasing a drive shaft to machinery in the round- house below. The post was enclosed in a conical wooden tower. In 1893 the post was removed, the conical tower heightened, and the body made still smaller. Very large two- storeyed octagonal roundhouse. Faced in brick in the 1860s on conversion to cottages.  Baden Powell worked on Scouting for Boys  here.  Millers acted as security for this bit of the common where there were a number of duels, including those with Prime Ministers. 

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